--- title: If the shoulder belt rubs your neck, you are probably too small for… — Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and… · tree and pragmatics description: If the shoulder belt rubs your neck, you are probably too small for it; ask for a booster seat, a raised seat that lifts a child so the belt fits. Who acts: shoulder belt, you, raised seat, belt. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoulder belt, you, raised seat, 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:11 # text = If the shoulder belt rubs your neck, you are probably too small for it; ask for a booster seat, a raised seat that lifts a child so the belt fits. # 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): no change 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 rubs rub VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 probably probably ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 too too ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 booster booster NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 raised raise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 25 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 lifts lift VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 33 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 fits fit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rub** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the shoulder belt | your neck | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | you | | | | | for belt; probably, small *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | | for a booster seat | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **raise** | participle | | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **lift** | present | a raised seat | a child | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | | 6 | **fit** | present | the belt | | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:11`. **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. 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