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title: Ratings exist because the same film can be fine for a 16-year-old an… — Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ratings exist because the same film can be fine for a 16-year-old and upsetting for an 8-year-old. Who acts: Ratings, same film. 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 2

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Ratings exist because the same film can be fine for a 16-year-old and upsetting for an 8-year-old.

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**Who acts:** Ratings, same film · **What happens:** exist, be

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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, same film), 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:2
# text = Ratings exist because the same film can be fine for a 16-year-old and upsetting for an 8-year-old.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Ratings	rating	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	upsetting	upsetting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
21	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	_
23	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **exist** | present | Ratings |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | can | the same film |  |  |  |  | for a year old; fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the same film *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a year old | 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): R7-rel-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/).

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