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title: Children sit in the back, and a rear-facing baby seat never goes in… — Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags · tree and pragmatics
description: Children sit in the back, and a rear-facing baby seat never goes in front of an active airbag. Who acts: Children, facing baby seat. A sentence of the lesson «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags, sentence 11

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Children sit in the back, and a rear-facing baby seat never goes in front of an active airbag.

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**Who acts:** Children, facing baby seat · **What happens:** sit, face, not go · **To what, where:** back, front

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» of the technology 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, facing baby seat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:018-car-safety.lesson:11
# text = Children sit in the back, and a rear-facing baby seat never goes in front of an active airbag.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 018-car-safety.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	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	rear	rear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	facing	face	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	airbag	airbag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **sit** | present | Children |  |  | the back |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in back=Location |
| 2 | **face** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **go** | present | a facing baby seat |  |  | front of a active airbag |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location |

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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): 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.

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