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title: In a crash nobody can hold a child with their arms, because the forc… — Crash forces, school buses and public buses · tree and pragmatics
description: In a crash nobody can hold a child with their arms, because the forces are far stronger than any arms. Who acts: nobody, forces. A sentence of the lesson «Crash forces, school buses and public buses» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Crash forces, school buses and public buses, sentence 5

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In a crash nobody can hold a child with their arms, because the forces are far stronger than any arms.

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**Who acts:** nobody, forces · **What happens:** hold, be · **To what, where:** child, crash

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Crash forces, school buses and public buses» 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 (nobody, forces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:269-school-buses-and-public-buses.lesson:5
# text = In a crash nobody can hold a child with their arms, because the forces are far stronger than any arms.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 269-school-buses-and-public-buses.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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	advcl	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **hold** | can | nobody | a child |  | a crash |  | with fare's arms | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme in crash=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | the forces |  |  |  |  | than any arms; far, strong *property* | tree rules |

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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:269-school-buses-and-public-buses.lesson:5`.

**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): no change. **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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