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title: why do kids get hurt near school buses not on them mostly — Crash forces, school buses and public… · tree and pragmatics
description: why do kids get hurt near school buses not on them mostly Test 16 · ★ of lesson 269 «Crash forces, school buses and public buses» 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 · ★ · Crash forces, school buses and public buses

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why do kids get hurt near school buses not on them mostly

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** hurt · **To what, where:** kids, school buses

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This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 269 «Crash forces, school buses and public buses» 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/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/#t16).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:269-school-buses-and-public-buses:t16:1
# text = why do kids get hurt near school buses not on them mostly
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
12	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | present · passive · do-support |  | kids |  | school buses |  | on buses *= bus*; mostly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Buses drive faster than cars do, even near schools and in towns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:269-school-buses-and-public-buses:t16:o1:1
# text = Buses drive faster than cars do, even near schools and in towns
1	Buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drive	drive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | present | Buses |  |  | schools and towns |  | fast *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | cars |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The buses are older than cars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:269-school-buses-and-public-buses:t16:o2:1
# text = The buses are older than cars
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	buses	bus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the buses |  |  |  |  | than cars; old *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They step into blind spots or out from behind the bus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:269-school-buses-and-public-buses:t16:o3:1
# text = They step into blind spots or out from behind the bus
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	step	step	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | present | They |  |  | blind spots |  | from the bus | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into spot=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bus seats have no belts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:269-school-buses-and-public-buses:t16:o4:1
# text = Bus seats have no belts
1	Bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	belts	belt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Bus seats | no belts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belt=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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