--- title: Car crashes do happen, but most journeys end safely; seat belts, chi… — Accidents, wars and deaths on the news · tree and pragmatics description: Car crashes do happen, but most journeys end safely; seat belts, child seats and careful driving make them much safer. Who acts: Car crashes, most journeys, seat belts. 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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 (Car crashes, most journeys, seat belts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.lesson:5 # text = Car crashes do happen, but most journeys end safely; seat belts, child seats and careful driving make them much safer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.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 ×1 1 Car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 crashes crash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 journeys journey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 end end VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 safely safely ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 belts belt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 seats seat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj 19 driving drive NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 20 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 much much ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 safer safe ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 xcomp _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **happen** | present · do-support | Car crashes | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **end** | present | most journeys | | | | | safely *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **make** | present | seat belts and child seats and careful driving | journeys *= journey* | | | | safe *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product | 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:religion-ethics:060-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news.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): 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. 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