In Overpass search, why I am getting child nodes along with the actual matches?

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I am running a search to find named way objects, like this:

[out:csv(::id,::type, ::lat,::lon, name, "addr:city"; true; ",")];
way[sport=climbing] ["name" ~ "Direct"] (37.7,-122.5,37.8,-122.3);
(._;>;);
out center;

and the output looks like this:

id,type,lat,lon,name,addr:city
4901432254,node,37.7653383,-122.4373028,
4901432255,node,37.7653393,-122.4372884,
4901432256,node,37.7653488,-122.4373064,
498803172,way,37.7653435,-122.4372974,Beaver Street Direct,

so first 3 objects not only don’t have name tag, they are not even a way type! As I understand they are found only because they are part of the 498803172 object that does matches the filter. Is there any way to exclude them from the output?

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For example, replace:

nwr[sport=climbing] ["name"~"Direct"] (37.7,-122.5,37.8,-122.3);
(._;>;);

by

(
node[sport=climbing]["name"~"Direct"](37.7,-122.5,37.8,-122.3);
way[sport=climbing]["name"~"Direct"](37.7,-122.5,37.8,-122.3);
rel[sport=climbing]["name"~"Direct"](37.7,-122.5,37.8,-122.3);
);

Have a look at Overpass API/Overpass QL - OpenStreetMap Wiki

Such basic questions are addressed there in many examples.