--- title: It is a myth that a car can stop instantly: even the best brakes nee… — Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe · tree and pragmatics description: It is a myth that a car can stop instantly: even the best brakes need time and distance. Who acts: car, best brakes. A sentence of the lesson «Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/37-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/) / [Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/37-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe/) / 13 # Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, sentence 13 It is a myth that a car can stop instantly: even the best brakes need time and distance. **Who acts:** car, best brakes · **What happens:** be, stop, need · **To what, where:** myth 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 (car, best brakes), 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:13 # text = It is a myth that a car can stop instantly: even the best brakes need time and distance. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:acl 10 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 even even ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 brakes brake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | a myth | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **stop** | can | a car | | | | | instantly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **need** | present | the best brakes | | | | time | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | 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:13`. **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 ×1, 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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/37-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe/12/) - next →: [Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/37-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/37-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe/)