--- title: Keeping your seat belt fastened whenever you are seated protects you… — Why planes fly · tree and pragmatics description: Keeping your seat belt fastened whenever you are seated protects you if the plane hits sudden bumps. Who acts: seat belt, Keeping, plane. A sentence of the lesson «Why planes fly» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/22-why-planes-fly/13/) [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/) / [Why planes fly](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/22-why-planes-fly/) / 13 # Why planes fly, sentence 13 Keeping your seat belt fastened whenever you are seated protects you if the plane hits sudden bumps. **Who acts:** seat belt, Keeping, plane · **What happens:** keep, fasten, seat, protect, hit · **To what, where:** seat belt, you, sudden bumps This is a sentence of the lesson «Why planes fly» 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 (seat belt, Keeping, plane), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:022-why-planes-fly.lesson:13 # text = Keeping your seat belt fastened whenever you are seated protects you if the plane hits sudden bumps. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 022-why-planes-fly.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 Keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 csubj _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 fastened fasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 xcomp _ _ 6 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 5 advmod _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 seated seat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl:relcl _ _ 10 protects protect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 plane plane NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 hits hit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 16 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 bumps bump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | gerund | | your seat belt | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fasten** | participle | your seat belt *not said here* | | | | | whenever *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **seat** | present · passive | | you | | | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | | 4 | **protect** | present | Keeping | | you | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | | 5 | **hit** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the plane | sudden bumps | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bump=Co-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:022-why-planes-fly.lesson:13`. **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: [Why planes fly, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/22-why-planes-fly/12/) - next →: [Why planes fly, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/22-why-planes-fly/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/22-why-planes-fly/)