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title: Nothing heavy can stop instantly: a car needs time and distance, and… — Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe · tree and pragmatics
description: Nothing heavy can stop instantly: a car needs time and distance, and a heavy train needs over a kilometre, so the safest plan is never to be in the way. Who acts: Nothing, car, heavy train, safest plan. A sentence of the lesson «Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe» of the physics course of Mova's p
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# Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, sentence 3

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Nothing heavy can stop instantly: a car needs time and distance, and a heavy train needs over a kilometre, so the safest plan is never to be in the way.

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**Who acts:** Nothing, car, heavy train, safest plan · **What happens:** stop, need, not be · **To what, where:** kilometre, way

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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 (Nothing, car, heavy train, safest plan), 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:3
# text = Nothing heavy can stop instantly: a car needs time and distance, and a heavy train needs over a kilometre, so the safest plan is never to be in the way.
# 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): no change
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
34	.	.	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** | can | Nothing |  |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **need** | present | a car |  |  |  | time |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **need** | present | a heavy train |  |  | a kilometre |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | the safest plan |  |  | the way |  |  | tree rules |

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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:3`.

**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): no change. **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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