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title: apparently 2 kids shared one seat belt on the way to footy and when… — In the car: seat belts, car seats and… · tree and pragmatics
description: apparently 2 kids shared one seat belt on the way to footy and when the car braked they both smashed into the seat. what's the true lesson? Test 18 · ★★ 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
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# Test 18 · ★★ · In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers

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apparently 2 kids shared one seat belt on the way to footy and when the car braked they both smashed into the seat. what's the true lesson?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** 2 kids, car, kids · **What happens:** share, brake, smash, be · **To what, where:** one seat belt, way, seat, true lesson

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This is test 18 · ★★ 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/#t18).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t18:1
# text = apparently 2 kids shared one seat belt on the way to footy and when the car braked they both smashed into the seat. what's the true lesson?
1	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shared	share	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	footy	footy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	braked	brake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	both	both	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	smashed	smash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | past | 2 kids | one seat belt |  | the way to footy |  | apparently *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **brake** | past | the car |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **smash** | past | kids *= kid* |  |  |  |  | into the seat *result*; both *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into seat=Result |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | the true lesson |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Short trips don't need belts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t18:o1:1
# text = Short trips don't need belts
1	Short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	trips	trip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	belts	belt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | Short trips | belts |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot belt=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hold on tight instead of a belt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t18:o2:1
# text = Hold on tight instead of a belt
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	tight	tight	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	7	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold on** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | instead a belt; tight *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Two small kids can share one belt if they're small enough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t18:o3:1
# text = Two small kids can share one belt if they're small enough
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
12	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | can | Two small kids | one belt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | kids *= kid* |  |  |  |  | enough, small *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Everyone needs their own seat belt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts:t18:o4:1
# text = Everyone needs their own seat belt
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | Everyone | their own seat belt |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot belt=Theme |

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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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