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title: A seat belt stops you together with the car and spreads the force ov… — Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe · tree and pragmatics
description: A seat belt stops you together with the car and spreads the force over the strong bones of your shoulder and hips, which is why it saves lives. Who acts: seat belt, belt. A sentence of the lesson «Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, sentence 1

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A seat belt stops you together with the car and spreads the force over the strong bones of your shoulder and hips, which is why it saves lives.

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**Who acts:** seat belt, belt · **What happens:** stop, spread, be, save · **To what, where:** you, force, strong bones, lives

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe» 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 (seat belt, belt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:037-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe.lesson:1
# text = A seat belt stops you together with the car and spreads the force over the strong bones of your shoulder and hips, which is why it saves lives.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 037-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hips	hip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	parataxis	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	saves	save	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	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 | **stop** | present | a seat belt | you |  |  |  | with the car; together *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector you=Eventuality with car=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **spread** | present | a seat belt *not said here* | the force |  | the strong bones of your shoulder and hips |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent force=Theme over bone=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **save** | present | belt | lives |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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:037-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe.lesson:1`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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