--- title: Crash tests are why every seat has a belt and children need the righ… — How a car is built · tree and pragmatics description: Crash tests are why every seat has a belt and children need the right car seat or booster for their size, so the belt sits across them safely. Who acts: Crash tests, seat, children, belt. A sentence of the lesson «How a car is built» of the technology course of Mova's primary school with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) / [How a car is built](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/) / 11 # How a car is built, sentence 11 Crash tests are why every seat has a belt and children need the right car seat or booster for their size, so the belt sits across them safely. **Who acts:** Crash tests, seat, children, belt · **What happens:** be, have, need, sit · **To what, where:** belt, right car seat This is a sentence of the lesson «How a car is built» 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 (Crash tests, seat, children, belt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:008-how-a-car-is-built.lesson:11 # text = Crash tests are why every seat has a belt and children need the right car seat or booster for their size, so the belt sits across them safely. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 008-how-a-car-is-built.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 Crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl:relcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 booster booster NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 27 across across ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 safely safely ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Crash tests | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | every seat | a belt | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belt=Patient | | 3 | **need** | present | children | the right car seat or booster | | | | for children's size | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot seat=Theme | | 4 | **sit** | present | the belt | | | | | across children *= child*; safely *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:008-how-a-car-is-built.lesson:11`. **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/). - ← previous: [How a car is built, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/10/) - next →: [How a car is built, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/8-how-a-car-is-built/)