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title: Seat belts and the right car seat or booster stop many children bein… — In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Seat belts and the right car seat or booster stop many children being killed or badly hurt in crashes every year. Who acts: Seat belts. 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 pr
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# In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers, sentence 23

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Seat belts and the right car seat or booster stop many children being killed or badly hurt in crashes every year.

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**Who acts:** Seat belts · **What happens:** stop, kill, hurt · **To what, where:** many children, crashes

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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 (Seat belts), 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:23
# text = Seat belts and the right car seat or booster stop many children being killed or badly hurt in crashes every year.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	belts	belt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	booster	booster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	crashes	crash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **stop** | present | Seat belts and the right car seat or booster |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **kill** | gerund · passive |  | many children |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **hurt** | participle |  |  |  | crashes | year | badly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:23`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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