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title: A bike helmet should be snug, level on the head, just above the eyeb… — Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helme… · tree and pragmatics
description: A bike helmet should be snug, level on the head, just above the eyebrows, with the strap buckled; a loose helmet does not protect. Who acts: bike helmet, loose helmet. A sentence of the lesson «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» of the everyday course of Mova's p
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# Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping, sentence 14

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A bike helmet should be snug, level on the head, just above the eyebrows, with the strap buckled; a loose helmet does not protect.

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**Who acts:** bike helmet, loose helmet · **What happens:** be, buckle, not protect · **To what, where:** head, strap

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» 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, loose helmet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.lesson:14
# text = A bike helmet should be snug, level on the head, just above the eyebrows, with the strap buckled; a loose helmet does not protect.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.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): R2-punct-next ×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	6	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	snug	snug	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	level	level	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	above	above	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	strap	strap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	buckled	buckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | should | a bike helmet |  |  |  |  | snug *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a bike helmet *not said here* |  |  | the head |  | above the eyebrows and the strap | tree rules |
| 3 | **buckle** | participle |  | the strap *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **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:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.lesson:14`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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