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title: A child uses a booster seat until the adult belt fits, usually aroun… — In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passe… · tree and pragmatics
description: A child uses a booster seat until the adult belt fits, usually around 145 to 150 cm or 4 feet 9 inches tall. Who acts: child, adult belt. A sentence of the lesson «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers, sentence 14

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A child uses a booster seat until the adult belt fits, usually around 145 to 150 cm or 4 feet 9 inches tall.

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**Who acts:** child, adult belt · **What happens:** use, fit · **To what, where:** booster seat, 145

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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, adult 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:14
# text = A child uses a booster seat until the adult belt fits, usually around 145 to 150 cm or 4 feet 9 inches tall.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	booster	booster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	around	around	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	145	145	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:case
17	150	150	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	cm	cm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
24	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | a child | a booster seat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient |
| 2 | **fit** | present | the adult belt | 145  150 cm or 4 feet and 9 inches |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts.lesson:14`.

**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): R5-strong ×1. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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