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title: Seat belts hold you when a car stops suddenly and your body keeps mo… — Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels · tree and pragmatics
description: Seat belts hold you when a car stops suddenly and your body keeps moving forwards. Who acts: Seat belts, car, body. A sentence of the lesson «Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels, sentence 16

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Seat belts hold you when a car stops suddenly and your body keeps moving forwards.

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**Who acts:** Seat belts, car, body · **What happens:** hold, stop, keep, move · **To what, where:** you, forwards

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels» of the world 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 belts, car, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:085-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels.lesson:16
# text = Seat belts hold you when a car stops suddenly and your body keeps moving forwards.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 085-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	belts	belt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
9	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advcl
15	forwards	forward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | Seat belts | you |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | present | a car |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **keep** | present | your body |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **move** | gerund | your body *not said here* | forwards |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent forward=Theme |

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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.

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**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:world:085-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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