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title: A helmet only works on your head, level, about two fingers above you… — Bike helmets and roads · tree and pragmatics
description: A helmet only works on your head, level, about two fingers above your eyebrows, buckled with room for about one finger under the strap; pushed back like a halo it leaves the forehead bare, and unbuckled it flies off before you land. Who acts: helmet, halo, you. A sentence of the lesson «Bike helmets
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# Bike helmets and roads, sentence 1

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A helmet only works on your head, level, about two fingers above your eyebrows, buckled with room for about one finger under the strap; pushed back like a halo it leaves the forehead bare, and unbuckled it flies off before you land.

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**Who acts:** helmet, halo, you · **What happens:** work, buckle, push back, leave, unbuckle, fly off · **To what, where:** eyebrows, forehead

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bike helmets and roads» of the medicine 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, halo, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:072-bike-helmets-and-roads.lesson:1
# text = A helmet only works on your head, level, about two fingers above your eyebrows, buckled with room for about one finger under the strap; pushed back like a halo it leaves the forehead bare, and unbuckled it flies off before you land.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 072-bike-helmets-and-roads.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
14	above	above	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	buckled	buckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	under	under	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	strap	strap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
29	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	advcl	_	_
30	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	halo	halo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:det
37	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:compound
38	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	unbuckled	unbuckle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=41:conj
44	off	off	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	land	land	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	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 | **work** | present | a helmet and level and two fingers above your eyebrows |  |  |  |  | on your head | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on head=Theme |
| 2 | **buckle** | participle |  | your eyebrows *not said here* |  |  |  | with room; for one finger under the strap | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **push back** | participle | halo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a halo | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **leave** | present | halo | the forehead |  |  |  | bare *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Theme |
| 5 | **unbuckle** | participle | halo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **fly off** | present | halo |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **land** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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.

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