--- title: In a crash, sensors set off a small charge that fills a nylon airbag… — Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags · tree and pragmatics description: In a crash, sensors set off a small charge that fills a nylon airbag with gas in less time than a blink, bursting out with great force, and then it quickly empties. Who acts: sensors, small charge, airbag. 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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 (sensors, small charge, airbag), 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:10 # text = In a crash, sensors set off a small charge that fills a nylon airbag with gas in less time than a blink, bursting out with great force, and then it quickly empties. # 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): R5-strong ×1 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 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 sensors sensor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 set set VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 off off ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 fills fill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 nylon nylon NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 airbag airbag NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 blink blink NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 bursting burst VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 force force NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 empties empty VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 36 . . 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 | **set off** | present | sensors | a small charge | | a crash | | | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition charge=Patient | | 2 | **fill** | present | a small charge | a nylon airbag | | | time | with gas; than a blink | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent airbag=Patient with gas=Instrument | | 3 | **burst out** | gerund | a small charge *not said here* | | | | | with great force | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **empty** | present | airbag | | | | then | quickly *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | 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:10`. **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 ×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: [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/9/) - next →: [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/)