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title: A U or G film can still be sad or a little scary; a rating says what… — Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: A U or G film can still be sad or a little scary; a rating says what is suitable, not how it will make you feel. Who acts: U film, rating, you. 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 i
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# Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist, sentence 22

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A U or G film can still be sad or a little scary; a rating says what is suitable, not how it will make you feel.

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**Who acts:** U film, rating, you · **What happens:** be, say, not make, not feel · **To what, where:** little, you · **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 (U film, rating, you), 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:22
# text = A U or G film can still be sad or a little scary; a rating says what is suitable, not how it will make you feel.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	U	U	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	G	G	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod
13	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rating	rating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | a U film |  |  |  | still | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a U film *not said here* | a little |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a rating |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | suitable *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **make** | future | rating | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **feel** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:22`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-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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