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title: A seat belt's lap part goes low across the hips and the shoulder par… — Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and… · tree and pragmatics
description: A seat belt's lap part goes low across the hips and the shoulder part across the chest and shoulder, not the neck, because in a crash the belt must press on the strong bones of the hips and chest, not the soft neck or tummy. Who acts: lap part, belt. A sentence of the lesson «Pavements, crossings, c
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# Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes, sentence 10

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A seat belt's lap part goes low across the hips and the shoulder part across the chest and shoulder, not the neck, because in a crash the belt must press on the strong bones of the hips and chest, not the soft neck or tummy.

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**Who acts:** lap part, belt · **What happens:** go, press · **To what, where:** hips, crash

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes» 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 (lap part, belt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.lesson:10
# text = A seat belt's lap part goes low across the hips and the shoulder part across the chest and shoulder, not the neck, because in a crash the belt must press on the strong bones of the hips and chest, not the soft neck or tummy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hips	hip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	across	across	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	press	press	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	hips	hip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
48	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **go** | present | a seat belt's lap part |  |  | the hips and the shoulder part across the chest and shoulder and the neck |  | low *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across hip=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **press** | must | the belt |  |  | a crash |  | on the strong bones of the hips  the soft neck or tummy and chest | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on bone=Theme |

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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:310-pavements-crossings-cars-planes-and-bikes.lesson:10`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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