--- title: A car cannot stop instantly; even at 30 miles an hour it needs sever… — Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags · tree and pragmatics description: A car cannot stop instantly; even at 30 miles an hour it needs several car-lengths, and more on a wet road. Who acts: car. 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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), 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:6 # text = A car cannot stop instantly; even at 30 miles an hour it needs several car-lengths, and more on a wet 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 even even ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:unmarked _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 lengths length NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 conj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 . . 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 | **not** **stop** | can | a car | | | | | instantly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **need** | present | car | several car lengths | | | | at 30 miles a hour | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot length=Theme | 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:6`. **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): no change. **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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/5/) - next →: [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/)