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title: A bike helmet must fit snugly, sit level just above the eyebrows and… — Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and… · tree and pragmatics
description: A bike helmet must fit snugly, sit level just above the eyebrows and have the strap buckled; a loose helmet does not protect. Who acts: bike helmet, strap, loose helmet. A sentence of the lesson «Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school 
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# Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes, sentence 16

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A bike helmet must fit snugly, sit level just above the eyebrows and have the strap buckled; a loose helmet does not protect.

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

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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 (bike helmet, strap, loose helmet), 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:16
# text = A bike helmet must fit snugly, sit level just above the eyebrows and have the strap buckled; a loose helmet does not protect.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	snugly	snugly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	level	level	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	above	above	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	strap	strap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	buckled	buckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:acl
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | must | a bike helmet |  |  |  |  | snugly *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | infinitive | a bike helmet *not said here* |  |  | the eyebrows |  | level *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above eyebrow=Location |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | a bike helmet *not said here* | the strap |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **buckle** | participle | the strap *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **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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**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:16`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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