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title: Children under about 12 or 13 sit in the back seat where possible, b… — In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Children under about 12 or 13 sit in the back seat where possible, because front airbags open with great force. Who acts: Children, front airbags. 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
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# In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers, sentence 15

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Children under about 12 or 13 sit in the back seat where possible, because front airbags open with great force.

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**Who acts:** Children, front airbags · **What happens:** sit, open · **To what, where:** back seat

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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 (Children, front airbags), 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:15
# text = Children under about 12 or 13 sit in the back seat where possible, because front airbags open with great force.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Children	Children	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
13	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	airbags	airbag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **sit** | present | Children under 12 |  |  | the back seat |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location |
| 2 | **open** | present | front airbags |  |  |  |  | with great force | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:15`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×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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