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title: lil bro unbuckled himself in the back — In the car: seat belts, car seats and… · tree and pragmatics
description: lil bro unbuckled himself in the back Test 16 · ★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 16 · ★★ · In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
lil bro unbuckled himself in the back

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lil bro · **What happens:** unbuckle · **To what, where:** bro, back

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This is test 16 · ★★ 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/#t16).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t16:1
# text = lil bro unbuckled himself in the back
1	lil	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	unbuckled	unbuckle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unbuckle** | past | lil bro | bro |  | the back |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ignore it, he's only small

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t16:o1:1
# text = Ignore it, he's only small
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | he |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hold him on your lap for the rest of the trip, that's just as safe

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t16:o2:1
# text = Hold him on your lap for the rest of the trip, that's just as safe
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | him *= he* |  | your lap |  | for the rest of the trip | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on lap=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Unbuckle yourself to help him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t16:o3:1
# text = Unbuckle yourself to help him
1	Unbuckle	unbuckle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unbuckle** | imperative | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Tell the driver so they can stop safely and buckle him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t16:o4:1
# text = Tell the driver so they can stop safely and buckle him
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	iobj	_	_
4	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
8	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	buckle	buckle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | the driver |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stop** | can | they |  |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **buckle** | infinitive | they *not said here* | driver |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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