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title: A helmet fits snug and level, just above the eyebrows, with the stra… — Bikes, scooters and car parks · tree and pragmatics
description: A helmet fits snug and level, just above the eyebrows, with the strap buckled; a loose helmet does not protect. Who acts: helmet, loose helmet. A sentence of the lesson «Bikes, scooters and car parks» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Bikes, scooters and car parks, sentence 5

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A helmet fits snug and level, just above the eyebrows, with the strap buckled; a loose helmet does not protect.

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**Who acts:** helmet, loose helmet · **What happens:** fit, buckle, not protect · **To what, where:** eyebrows, strap

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bikes, scooters and car parks» 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 (helmet, loose helmet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks.lesson:5
# text = A helmet fits snug and level, just above the eyebrows, with the strap buckled; a loose helmet does not protect.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks.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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	snug	snug	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
6	level	level	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	above	above	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	strap	strap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	buckled	buckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | present | a helmet |  |  | the eyebrows |  | with the strap; snug *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent above eyebrow=Trajectory |
| 2 | **buckle** | participle |  | the strap *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **protect** | present · do-support | a loose helmet |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×1. **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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