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title: Younger children use booster seats so the adult belt crosses their s… — Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe · tree and pragmatics
description: Younger children use booster seats so the adult belt crosses their shoulder and hips instead of their neck and tummy. Who acts: Younger children, adult belt. A sentence of the lesson «Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe» of the physics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe, sentence 8

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Younger children use booster seats so the adult belt crosses their shoulder and hips instead of their neck and tummy.

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**Who acts:** Younger children, adult belt · **What happens:** use, cross · **To what, where:** booster seats, shoulder

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe» of the physics 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 (Younger children, adult belt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:physics:037-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe.lesson:8
# text = Younger children use booster seats so the adult belt crosses their shoulder and hips instead of their neck and tummy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = physics
# lesson = 037-seat-belts-crashes-and-keeping-safe.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	Younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	booster	booster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
9	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	crosses	cross	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hips	hip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **use** | present | Younger children | booster seats |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient |
| 2 | **cross** | present | the adult belt | seats's shoulder and hips |  |  |  | instead hips's neck and tummy | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient |

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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): 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.

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