--- title: In a crash the car stops suddenly but the people inside keep moving… — Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe · tree and pragmatics description: In a crash the car stops suddenly but the people inside keep moving forward, and a seat belt stops them together with the car. Who acts: car, people, seat belt. 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 --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, sentence 5 In a crash the car stops suddenly but the people inside keep moving forward, and a seat belt stops them together with the car. **Who acts:** car, people, seat belt · **What happens:** stop, keep, move forward · **To what, where:** crash, people 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, people, seat 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:5 # text = In a crash the car stops suddenly but the people inside keep moving forward, and a seat belt stops them together with the car. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 inside inside ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 xcomp _ _ 14 forward forward ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 together together ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | present | the car | | | a crash | | suddenly *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crash=Location | | 2 | **keep** | present | the people | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **move forward** | gerund | the people *not said here* | | | | | forward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | present | a seat belt | people | | | | with the car; together *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector they=Eventuality with car=Subeventuality | 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:5`. **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/). - ← previous: [Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/37-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe/4/) - next →: [Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/37-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/37-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe/)