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title: Helmet foam is made to crush once, so after a crash you get a new on… — Bike helmets and roads · tree and pragmatics
description: Helmet foam is made to crush once, so after a crash you get a new one even if it looks fine; a bad head injury can change a life for good, and some children are killed on bikes every year on UK roads. Who acts: Helmet foam, you, foam, bad head injury. A sentence of the lesson «Bike helmets and roads
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# Bike helmets and roads, sentence 2

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Helmet foam is made to crush once, so after a crash you get a new one even if it looks fine; a bad head injury can change a life for good, and some children are killed on bikes every year on UK roads.

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**Who acts:** Helmet foam, you, foam, bad head injury · **What happens:** make, crush, get, look, change, kill · **To what, where:** Helmet foam, new one, life, children, bikes

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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 foam, you, foam, bad head injury), 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:2
# text = Helmet foam is made to crush once, so after a crash you get a new one even if it looks fine; a bad head injury can change a life for good, and some children are killed on bikes every year on UK roads.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	bikes	bike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
42	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	det	_	_
43	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl:unmarked	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **make** | present · passive |  | Helmet foam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **crush** | to-infinitive | Helmet foam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **get** | present | you | a new one |  |  | after a crash |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 4 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | foam |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **change** | can | a bad head injury | a life |  |  |  | for good | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent life=Theme for good=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **kill** | present · passive |  | some children |  | bikes | year | on UK roads | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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**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 ×2. **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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