--- title: In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A seat belt holds your body to the seat in a crash, but only when it sits in the right place: the lap belt low acro --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / In the car: seat belts, car seats and… # In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers Lesson 268 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 23 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/0/) — A seat belt holds your body to the seat in a crash, but only when it sits in the right place: the lap belt low across the hips and the shoulder belt across the chest and shoulder, not the neck. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/1/) — Adult belts are made for adult bodies, so a child uses a booster seat until the belt fits, usually until about 145 to 150 cm (4 feet 9 inches) tall, and sits in the back until about 12 or 13. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/2/) — Front airbags open with great force; they protect adults but can badly hurt children, and a baby in a rear-facing seat must never sit in front of an active airbag. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/4/) — A girl in Colorado opens her car door with her far hand; her body turns, she looks back and sees a cyclist coming, so she waits — this is called the Dutch reach. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/5/) — The Dutch reach means opening the car door with the hand farther from it, which turns your body so you look back for bikes. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/6/) — At school drop-off you get out on the pavement side quickly and walk away from the cars, because drivers there are in a hurry. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/7/) — Children leave car keys, locks and controls alone, because a child can start, move or lock the car by accident. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/8/) — Arms and heads stay inside the car, because passing cars, posts and branches can hit you. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/9/) — Fingers stay clear of a closing power window, because it can trap and hurt them. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/10/) — Passengers talk quietly and settle arguments calmly, because the driver must concentrate on the road. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/11/) — Carsickness gets better by looking out of the front window at the horizon and getting fresh air; reading or looking at a screen makes it worse. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/12/) — Using a phone while driving causes many crashes and is against the law in many places, and a child may kindly remind a parent. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/13/) — The lap belt goes low across the hips and the shoulder belt across the chest and shoulder, not across the neck, and never behind your back or under your arm. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/14/) — A child uses a booster seat until the adult belt fits, usually around 145 to 150 cm or 4 feet 9 inches tall. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/15/) — Children under about 12 or 13 sit in the back seat where possible, because front airbags open with great force. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/16/) — A rear-facing baby seat is never put in front of an active airbag. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/17/) — The seat belt stays on until the car has stopped and the engine is off. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/18/) — Everyone needs their own seat belt; two children never share one and nobody rides on a lap. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/19/) — In a crash the pull on a body is far stronger than any arms, so nobody can hold a child or baby safely on their lap. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/20/) — Many crashes happen on short trips close to home, so you buckle up for every trip, however short. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/21/) — A boy in Alabama took off his seat belt for a short drive to the shop; when the car braked hard he was thrown into the seat in front and broke his nose and two teeth. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/22/) — A girl of eight in Canada rode in the front seat; in a small crash the airbag burst out with great force and injured her neck. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/23/) — Seat belts and the right car seat or booster stop many children being killed or badly hurt in crashes every year. - ← previous: [Traffic lights, crossings and road signs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/267-traffic-lights-and-signs/) - next →: [Crash forces, school buses and public buses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/269-school-buses-and-public-buses/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)