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title: Many crashes happen on short trips close to home, so you buckle up f… — In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many crashes happen on short trips close to home, so you buckle up for every trip, however short. Who acts: Many crashes, you. A sentence of the lesson «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers, sentence 20

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Many crashes happen on short trips close to home, so you buckle up for every trip, however short.

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**Who acts:** Many crashes, you · **What happens:** happen, buckle up · **To what, where:** short trips

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many crashes, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.lesson:20
# text = Many crashes happen on short trips close to home, so you buckle up for every trip, however short.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	crashes	crash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	trips	trip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
7	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	buckle	buckle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	however	however	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | Many crashes |  |  | short trips |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trip=Location |
| 2 | **buckle up** | present | you |  |  |  |  | for every trip | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.lesson:20`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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