--- title: Cars are built to soften the stop: the front crumples slowly, an air… — Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe · tree and pragmatics description: Cars are built to soften the stop: the front crumples slowly, an airbag puffs out in a split second, and a longer, softer stop means a smaller force on the people inside. Who acts: front, airbag, longer softer stop. 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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, airbag, longer softer stop), 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:2 # text = Cars are built to soften the stop: the front crumples slowly, an airbag puffs out in a split second, and a longer, softer stop means a smaller force on the people inside. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 soften soften VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 crumples crumple VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det 15 airbag airbag NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 puffs puff VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 out out ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det 20 split split NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 second second ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 amod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 softer soft ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 amod _ _ 28 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 amod _ _ 32 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 36 inside inside ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present · passive | | Cars | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **soften** | to-infinitive | | the stop | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stop=Patient | | 3 | **crumple** | present | front | | | | | slowly *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **puff out** | present | a airbag | | | split | | out *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 5 | **mean** | present | a longer softer stop | a smaller force | | | | on the people | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Topic | 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:2`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/37-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe/1/) - next →: [Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/37-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/37-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe/)