--- title: A moving car is heavy and fast, and it cannot simply stop: the brake… — Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags · tree and pragmatics description: A moving car is heavy and fast, and it cannot simply stop: the brakes have to turn all that movement into heat, which takes time and road. Who acts: moving car, car, brakes, heat. 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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 (moving car, car, brakes, heat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:018-car-safety.lesson:0 # text = A moving car is heavy and fast, and it cannot simply stop: the brakes have to turn all that movement into heat, which takes time and road. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 018-car-safety.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 amod _ _ 3 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 13 simply simply ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 brakes brake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 23 det _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot 22 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | a moving car | | | | | heavy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | a moving car *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **stop** | can | car | | | | | simply *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **have** | present | the brakes | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **turn** | to-infinitive | the brakes *not said here* | all movement | | heat | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent movement=Theme into heat=Trajectory | | 7 | **take** | present | heat | | | | time | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:technology:018-car-safety.lesson:0`. **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): R8-pos-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: [Inside a car: engine, gears and the da…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/17-inside-a-car/17/) - next →: [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/)