--- title: A crumple zone at the front and back of a car is built to squash in… — Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: A crumple zone at the front and back of a car is built to squash in a crash so the people inside are slowed more gently. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/42-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory/16/) [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/) / [Olympiad: machines at home and in the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/42-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory/) / 16 # Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★, sentence 16 A crumple zone at the front and back of a car is built to squash in a crash so the people inside are slowed more gently. **What happens:** build, squash, slowed · **To what, where:** crumple zone, crash, people This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.lesson:16 # text = A crumple zone at the front and back of a car is built to squash in a crash so the people inside are slowed more gently. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 crumple crumple NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 zone zone NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 squash squash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 so so SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 inside inside ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nmod|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 slowed slowed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advcl 25 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 26 gently gently ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 27 . . PUNCT . _ 13 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 | | a crumple zone at the front of a car and back | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **squash** | to-infinitive | | | | a crash | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in crash=Trajectory | | 3 | **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:042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.lesson:16`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. 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