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title: Ratings come with short words of advice, like "contains moderate vio… — Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ratings come with short words of advice, like "contains moderate violence" or "strong language", so families know why the film got its rating. Who acts: Ratings, families, film, rating. A sentence of the lesson «Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist» of the adult l
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# Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist, sentence 16

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Ratings come with short words of advice, like "contains moderate violence" or "strong language", so families know why the film got its rating.

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**Who acts:** Ratings, families, film, rating · **What happens:** come, contain, know, get, word, rate · **To what, where:** moderate violence, rating, advice · **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 (Ratings, families, film, rating), 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:16
# text = Ratings come with short words of advice, like "contains moderate violence" or "strong language", so families know why the film got its rating.
# 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	Ratings	rating	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
12	moderate	moderate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	violence	violence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
24	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	rating	rating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **come** | present | Ratings |  |  |  |  | with short words of advice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **contain** *in a quote* | present | Ratings *not said here* | moderate violence or strong language |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot violence=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | present | families |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **get** | past | the film | rating's rating |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rating=Stimulus |
| 5 | **word** |  |  | advice |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **rate** |  | rating |  |  |  |  |  | nom rating «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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