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title: Adult belts are made for adult bodies, so a child uses a booster sea… — In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passe… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: child, belt. A sentence of the lesson «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» of t
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# In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers, sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** child, belt · **What happens:** make, use, fit, sit · **To what, where:** Adult belts, booster seat, back

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, belt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.lesson:1
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	belts	belt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	booster	booster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
22	until	until	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	145	145	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	150	150	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	_
27	cm	cm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
29	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
31	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
34	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	until	until	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	about	about	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	obl	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	43	conj	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | Adult belts |  |  |  | for adult bodies; tall *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material for body=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **use** | present | a child | a booster seat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient |
| 3 | **fit** | present | the belt |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit** | present |  |  |  | the back | until 12 |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in back=Location |

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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.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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