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title: 12A is used only in UK cinemas: under-12s may see the film if an adu… — Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: 12A is used only in UK cinemas: under-12s may see the film if an adult goes with them; on a disc or download the same film is rated 12. Who acts: 12s, adult. 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
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# Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist, sentence 11

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12A is used only in UK cinemas: under-12s may see the film if an adult goes with them; on a disc or download the same film is rated 12.

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**Who acts:** 12s, adult · **What happens:** use, see, go, rate · **To what, where:** 12A, UK cinemas, film, same film, disc

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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 (12s, adult), 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:11
# text = 12A is used only in UK cinemas: under-12s may see the film if an adult goes with them; on a disc or download the same film is rated 12.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	12A	12A	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cinemas	cinema	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	12s	12	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	disc	disc	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	download	download	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	rated	rate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
33	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **use** | present · passive |  | 12A |  | UK cinemas |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | may | 12s | the film |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer film=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a adult |  |  |  |  | with U | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **rate** | present · passive |  | the same film |  | a disc or download |  |  | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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