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title: Why do children under about 12 or 13 ride in the back seat? — In the car: seat belts, car seats and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do children under about 12 or 13 ride in the back seat? Test 15 · ★★ of lesson 268 «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 15 · ★★ · In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers

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Why do children under about 12 or 13 ride in the back seat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** children, 12 ride

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This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 268 «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t15:1
# text = Why do children under about 12 or 13 ride in the back seat?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
9	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | children |  | 12 ride in the back seat |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Eventuality |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A front airbag can injure a small child

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t15:o1:1
# text = A front airbag can injure a small child
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	airbag	airbag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	injure	injure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **injure** | can | a front airbag | a small child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The front seat is too high

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t15:o2:1
# text = The front seat is too high
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the front seat |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is only to stop them fighting over the radio

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t15:o3:1
# text = It is only to stop them fighting over the radio
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | stop *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fight** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | over the radio | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over radio=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The back seat is warmer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t15:o4:1
# text = The back seat is warmer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the back seat |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | tree rules |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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