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title: In the UK the watershed is 9 pm: programmes not suitable for childre… — Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK the watershed is 9 pm: programmes not suitable for children are not shown on ordinary TV channels before then. Who acts: watershed. 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
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# Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist, sentence 19

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In the UK the watershed is 9 pm: programmes not suitable for children are not shown on ordinary TV channels before then.

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**Who acts:** watershed · **What happens:** be, not show · **To what, where:** 9, UK, programmes, ordinary TV channels

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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 (watershed), 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:19
# text = In the UK the watershed is 9 pm: programmes not suitable for children are not shown on ordinary TV channels before then.
# 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	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	watershed	watershed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	parataxis	_	_
8	pm	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	programmes	programme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	channels	channel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **is a** | present | the watershed | 9 |  | the UK |  | pm *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **show** | present · passive |  | programmes |  | ordinary TV channels |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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**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:19`.

**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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