--- title: ABS anti-lock brakes notice when a wheel stops turning and skids, an… — Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags · tree and pragmatics description: ABS anti-lock brakes notice when a wheel stops turning and skids, and release and press the brakes many times a second so the driver can still steer. Who acts: ABS anti-lock brakes, wheel, driver. A sentence of the lesson «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» of the technology course of Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/7/) [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/) / 7 # Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 7 ABS anti-lock brakes notice when a wheel stops turning and skids, and release and press the brakes many times a second so the driver can still steer. **Who acts:** ABS anti-lock brakes, wheel, driver · **What happens:** notice, stop, turn, skid, release, press · **To what, where:** brakes 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 (ABS anti-lock brakes, wheel, driver), 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:7 # text = ABS anti-lock brakes notice when a wheel stops turning and skids, and release and press the brakes many times a second so the driver can still steer. # 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 ABS ABS PROPN NNP Number=Plur 3 compound _ _ 2 anti-lock anti-lock ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 brakes brake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 notice notice VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 9 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 skids skid VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 release release VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 press press VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 brakes brake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 so so SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 still still ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 steer steer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 29 . . 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 | **notice** | present | ABS anti-lock brakes | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **stop** | present | a wheel | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **turn** | gerund | a wheel *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **skid** | present | a wheel *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **release** | present | ABS anti-lock brakes *not said here* | | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 6 | **press** | present | ABS anti-lock brakes *not said here* | the brakes | | | time | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brake=Theme | | 7 | **steer** | can | the driver | | | | still | | vn accompany-51.7 «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:7`. **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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/6/) - next →: [Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/18-car-safety/)