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title: In the USA the ratings are G, PG, PG-13 (parents strongly cautioned,… — Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the USA the ratings are G, PG, PG-13 (parents strongly cautioned, some material may not suit under-13s), R (under-17s need a parent or guardian with them) and NC-17 (nobody 17 or under). Who acts: ratings, material, 17s. A sentence of the lesson «Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Cana
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# Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist, sentence 12

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In the USA the ratings are G, PG, PG-13 (parents strongly cautioned, some material may not suit under-13s), R (under-17s need a parent or guardian with them) and NC-17 (nobody 17 or under).

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**Who acts:** ratings, material, 17s · **What happens:** be, caution, not suit, need · **To what, where:** G, USA, parents, 13s, parent

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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 (ratings, material, 17s), 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:12
# text = In the USA the ratings are G, PG, PG-13 (parents strongly cautioned, some material may not suit under-13s), R (under-17s need a parent or guardian with them) and NC-17 (nobody 17 or under).
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ratings	rating	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	G	G	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	PG	PG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	PG	PG	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
13	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	parataxis	_	_
16	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	cautioned	caution	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
24	under	under	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	13s	13	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	R	R	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
31	under	under	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:mark
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	_
33	17s	17	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	guardian	guardian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
41	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	NC	NC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:conj
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	_
45	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	43	appos	_	_
46	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	47	punct	_	_
47	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	29	appos	_	_
48	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	47	flat	_	_
49	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	under	under	ADV	RB	_	48	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:conj|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
51	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	47	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=50:punct
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | the ratings | G and PG  PG  13 and NC |  | the USA |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **caution** *speech: other* | participle |  | parents *not said here* |  |  |  | strongly *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **suit** | may | some material |  |  | 13s |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **need** | present | 17s | a parent or guardian |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot parent=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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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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