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title: In the UK children use a child seat or booster until they are 12 yea… — Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK children use a child seat or booster until they are 12 years old or 135 cm tall, whichever comes first. Who acts: children, seat, whichever. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★, sentence 13

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In the UK children use a child seat or booster until they are 12 years old or 135 cm tall, whichever comes first.

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**Who acts:** children, seat, whichever · **What happens:** use, be, come · **To what, where:** child seat, UK, 135 cm

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: machines at home and in the factory ★★★» 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, seat, whichever), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:technology:042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.lesson:13
# text = In the UK children use a child seat or booster until they are 12 years old or 135 cm tall, whichever comes first.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = technology
# lesson = 042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	booster	booster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	135	135	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	cm	cm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
22	whichever	whichever	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
24	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **use** | present | children | a child seat or booster |  | the UK |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | seat |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | seat *not said here* | 135 cm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | present | whichever |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:technology:042-olympiad-machines-at-home-and-in-the-factory.lesson:13`.

**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): no change. **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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