--- title: Before a TV programme, a channel may show a warning such as "contain… — Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Ca… · tree and pragmatics description: Before a TV programme, a channel may show a warning such as "contains strong language" so viewers can choose to switch off. Who acts: channel, viewers. 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 schoo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/57-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Austra…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/57-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist/) / 18 # Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist, sentence 18 Before a TV programme, a channel may show a warning such as "contains strong language" so viewers can choose to switch off. **Who acts:** channel, viewers · **What happens:** show, contain, choose, switch off · **To what, where:** warning, strong language · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (channel, viewers), 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:18 # text = Before a TV programme, a channel may show a warning such as "contains strong language" so viewers can choose to switch off. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Before before ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 programme programme NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 channel channel NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 contains contain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 nmod _ _ 16 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 19 so so SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 viewers viewer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advcl 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 switch switch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 off off ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | may | a channel | a warning | | | before a TV programme | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent warning=Recipient | | 2 | **contain** *in a quote* | present | | strong language | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot language=Theme | | 3 | **choose** | can | viewers | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **switch off** | to-infinitive | viewers *not said here* | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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:18`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1. **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…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/57-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist/17/) - next →: [Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Austra…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/57-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/57-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist/)