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title: Every film shown in a cinema or sold on a disc gets an age rating: a… — Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every film shown in a cinema or sold on a disc gets an age rating: a short label that says who it is suitable for. Who acts: film, short label. A sentence of the lesson «Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist, sentence 0

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Every film shown in a cinema or sold on a disc gets an age rating: a short label that says who it is suitable for.

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**Who acts:** film, short label · **What happens:** show, sell, get, say, be · **To what, where:** film, cinema, disc, age rating · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist» of the adult life 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 (film, short label), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:057-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist.lesson:0
# text = Every film shown in a cinema or sold on a disc gets an age rating: a short label that says who it is suitable for.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 057-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cinema	cinema	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	disc	disc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	rating	rating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	label	label	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **show** | participle |  | every film *not said here* |  | a cinema |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sell** | participle |  |  |  | a disc |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent on disc=Asset |
| 3 | **get** | present | every film | a age rating |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rating=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a short label |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | film |  |  |  |  | suitable *property* | tree rules |

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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:adult-life:057-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist.lesson:0`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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