--- title: A car's front crumple zone squashes in a crash and makes the stop ta… — Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe · tree and pragmatics description: A car's front crumple zone squashes in a crash and makes the stop take a little longer, so the force on the people is smaller, while the strong cabin keeps its shape. Who acts: front crumple zone, stop, force, strong cabin. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (front crumple zone, stop, force, strong cabin), 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:10 # text = A car's front crumple zone squashes in a crash and makes the stop take a little longer, so the force on the people is smaller, while the strong cabin keeps its shape. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 front front ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 crumple crumple NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 zone zone NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 squashes squash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 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 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:advmod 18 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 cabin cabin NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:conj 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squash** | present | a car's front crumple zone | | | a crash | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in crash=Trajectory | | 2 | **make** | present | a car's front crumple zone *not said here* | the stop | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | infinitive | the stop *not said here* | | | | | long *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | the force on the people | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **keep** | present | the strong cabin | force's shape | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | 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. **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:10`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/37-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe/9/) - next →: [Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/37-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/37-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe/)