--- title: Modern cars are built to protect the people inside: the belt holds y… — Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags · tree and pragmatics description: Modern cars are built to protect the people inside: the belt holds you, the airbag cushions the head, and the front of the car crumples on purpose to slow everyone more gently. Who acts: belt, airbag, front. A sentence of the lesson «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» of the technology cour --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/2/) [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/) / 2 # Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 2 Modern cars are built to protect the people inside: the belt holds you, the airbag cushions the head, and the front of the car crumples on purpose to slow everyone more gently. **Who acts:** belt, airbag, front · **What happens:** build, protect, hold, cushion, crumple, slow · **To what, where:** Modern cars, people, you, head, purpose, everyone 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 (belt, airbag, 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:2 # text = Modern cars are built to protect the people inside: the belt holds you, the airbag cushions the head, and the front of the car crumples on purpose to slow everyone 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 cars car NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 inside inside ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=13:punct 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 airbag airbag NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 cushions cushion VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 crumples crumple VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 slow slow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 33 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 32 obj _ _ 34 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 advmod _ _ 35 gently gently ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present · passive | | Modern cars | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive | | | the people | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary | | 3 | **hold** | present | the belt | you | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **cushion** | present | the airbag | the head | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **crumple** | present | the front of the car | | | purpose | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **slow** | to-infinitive | the front of the car *not said here* | everyone | | | | gently *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient | 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:2`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/1/) - next →: [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/)