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title: An unbuckled helmet comes off in a crash before the head hits the gr… — Bike helmets and roads · tree and pragmatics
description: An unbuckled helmet comes off in a crash before the head hits the ground. Who acts: unbuckled helmet, head. A sentence of the lesson «Bike helmets and roads» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bike helmets and roads, sentence 8

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An unbuckled helmet comes off in a crash before the head hits the ground.

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**Who acts:** unbuckled helmet, head · **What happens:** come off, hit · **To what, where:** crash, ground

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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 (unbuckled helmet, head), 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:8
# text = An unbuckled helmet comes off in a crash before the head hits the ground.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unbuckled	unbuckle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
3	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	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 | **come off** | present | a unbuckled helmet |  |  | a crash |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in crash=Location |
| 2 | **hit** | present | the head | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-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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**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:medicine:072-bike-helmets-and-roads.lesson:8`.

**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): R8-pos-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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