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title: The foam in a bike helmet crushes in a crash and slows the head more… — Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely · tree and pragmatics
description: The foam in a bike helmet crushes in a crash and slows the head more gently, so a helmet that has had a big knock should be replaced. Who acts: foam, helmet. A sentence of the lesson «Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an
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# Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely, sentence 14

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The foam in a bike helmet crushes in a crash and slows the head more gently, so a helmet that has had a big knock should be replaced.

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**Who acts:** foam, helmet · **What happens:** crush, slow, have, replace · **To what, where:** crash, head, big knock, helmet

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely» of the physics 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 (foam, helmet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:003-parachutes-and-falling-safely.lesson:14
# text = The foam in a bike helmet crushes in a crash and slows the head more gently, so a helmet that has had a big knock should be replaced.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 003-parachutes-and-falling-safely.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	crushes	crush	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	slows	slow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	replaced	replace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12: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 | **crush** | present | the foam in a bike helmet |  |  | a crash |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **slow** | present | the foam in a bike helmet *not said here* | the head |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present · perfect | a helmet | a big knock |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knock=Patient |
| 4 | **replace** | should · passive |  | a helmet |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:physics:003-parachutes-and-falling-safely.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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