--- title: In the UK the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) rates film… — Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Ca… · tree and pragmatics description: In the UK the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) rates films: U (Universal, for everyone), PG (Parental Guidance), 12A, 12, 15 and 18; 15 and 18 mean nobody younger may buy or see them. Who acts: British Board, 15, nobody. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (British Board, 15, nobody), 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:10 # text = In the UK the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) rates films: U (Universal, for everyone), PG (Parental Guidance), 12A, 12, 15 and 18; 15 and 18 mean nobody younger may buy or see them. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 3 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 compound _ _ 6 Board board PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 Film film PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 Classification classification PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 11 BBFC bbfc NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 13 rates rate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 films film NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 16 U U PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Universal universal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 16 nmod _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 PG PG PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 26 Parental parental ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 Guidance guidance NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 12A 12A PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 list _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 conj _ _ 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 nsubj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 conj _ _ 41 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 42 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 45 nsubj _ _ 43 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 42 amod _ _ 44 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 buy buy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 41 ccomp _ _ 46 or or CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 conj _ _ 48 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rate** | present | the British Board of Film Classification | films | | the UK | | | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | 15 | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **buy** | may | nobody | | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **see** | infinitive | nobody *not said here* | U | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | 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:adult-life:057-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist.lesson:10`. **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): R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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: [Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Austra…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/57-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist/9/) - next →: [Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Austra…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/57-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/57-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist/)