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title: Booster seats lift a child so the seat belt sits on the strong bones… — Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helme… · tree and pragmatics
description: Booster seats lift a child so the seat belt sits on the strong bones of the hips and chest; a child needs one until the belt fits properly without it. Who acts: Booster seats, seat belt, child, belt. A sentence of the lesson «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» of
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# Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping, sentence 22

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Booster seats lift a child so the seat belt sits on the strong bones of the hips and chest; a child needs one until the belt fits properly without it.

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**Who acts:** Booster seats, seat belt, child, belt · **What happens:** lift, sit, need, fit · **To what, where:** child, strong bones, one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» 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 (Booster seats, seat belt, child, belt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.lesson:22
# text = Booster seats lift a child so the seat belt sits on the strong bones of the hips and chest; a child needs one until the belt fits properly without it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.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 ×2
1	Booster	booster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lift	lift	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hips	hip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	obj	_	_
25	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det
27	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
29	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod
30	without	without	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **lift** | present | Booster seats | a child |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | present | the seat belt |  |  | the strong bones of the hips and chest |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bone=Location |
| 3 | **need** | present | a child | one |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme |
| 4 | **fit** | present | the belt |  |  |  |  | without seat; properly *property* | 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:331-walking-seat-belts-buses-airports-bikes-and-tipping.lesson:22`.

**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 ×2. **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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