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title: Identify the principal purpose of the age rating attached to a film. — Age ratings, scary films and choosing… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal purpose of the age rating attached to a film. Exam question 1 of lesson 26 «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 1 · Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch

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Identify the principal purpose of the age rating attached to a film.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, age rating · **What happens:** identify, attach, purpose · **To what, where:** principal purpose, age rating

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 26 «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal purpose of the age rating attached to a film.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rating	rating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal purpose of the age rating |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme |
| 2 | **attach** | participle |  | the age rating *not said here* |  |  |  | to a film | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to film=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **purpose** |  | the age rating |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The augmentation of the film's appeal to children by the promise of excitement

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch:e1:o1:1
# text = The augmentation of the film's appeal to children by the promise of excitement
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	augmentation	augmentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	appeal	appeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **augment** |  | the promise of excitement | the film's appeal to children |  |  |  |  | nom augmentation «event transitive»: of=patient by=agent |
| 2 | **appeal** |  | the film |  |  |  |  | to children | nom appeal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
| 3 | **promise** |  |  | excitement |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The duration of the film

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch:e1:o2:1
# text = The duration of the film
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The prohibition of all films to adult audiences unless accompanied by children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch:e1:o3:1
# text = The prohibition of all films to adult audiences unless accompanied by children
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prohibition	prohibition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	audiences	audience	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | participle · passive | children | the prohibition of all films to adult audiences |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **prohibit** |  |  | all films to adult audiences |  |  |  |  | nom prohibition «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Guidance on its content

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch:e1:o4:1
# text = Guidance on its content
1	Guidance	guidance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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