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title: In Canada the provinces rate films; ratings such as 14A mean under-1… — Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Canada the provinces rate films; ratings such as 14A mean under-14s must be with an adult. Who acts: provinces, ratings, 14s. 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 its dependency t
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# Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist, sentence 15

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In Canada the provinces rate films; ratings such as 14A mean under-14s must be with an adult.

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**Who acts:** provinces, ratings, 14s · **What happens:** rate, mean, be · **To what, where:** films, Canada · **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 (provinces, ratings, 14s), 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:15
# text = In Canada the provinces rate films; ratings such as 14A mean under-14s must be with an adult.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rate	rate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ratings	rating	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	14A	14A	X	FW	_	8	nmod	_	_
12	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	14s	14	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rate** | present | the provinces | films |  | Canada |  |  | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present | ratings such 14A |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | must | 14s |  |  |  |  | with a adult | 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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**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): no change. **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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