--- title: The front and back of a car are crumple zones, built to squash in a… — Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags · tree and pragmatics description: The front and back of a car are crumple zones, built to squash in a crash and take up energy so the people inside are slowed more gently. Who acts: front. A sentence of the lesson «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/18/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/) / 18 # Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 18 The front and back of a car are crumple zones, built to squash in a crash and take up energy so the people inside are slowed more gently. **Who acts:** front · **What happens:** be, build, squash, take up, slowed · **To what, where:** crumple zones, crash, energy, people This is a sentence of the lesson «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» of the technology 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 (front), 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:18 # text = The front and back of a car are crumple zones, built to squash in a crash and take up energy so the people inside are slowed more gently. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 crumple crumple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 zones zone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 squash squash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 so so SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 inside inside ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 slowed slowed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 28 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ _ 29 gently gently ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the front of a car and back | crumple zones | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **build** | participle | | crumple zones *not said here* | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **squash** | to-infinitive | | | | a crash | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in crash=Trajectory | | 4 | **take up** | infinitive | | energy | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 5 | **slowed** | present · passive | | the people | | | | gently *property* | tree rules | 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:18`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/17/) - next →: [Electric cars and charging, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/19-electric-cars-and-charging/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/)