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title: Younger brains are still learning to handle strong pictures and feel… — Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: Younger brains are still learning to handle strong pictures and feelings, so the rating helps families choose before they press play, not after. Who acts: Younger brains, rating, families, brains. A sentence of the lesson «Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist» of 
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# Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist, sentence 3

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Younger brains are still learning to handle strong pictures and feelings, so the rating helps families choose before they press play, not after.

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**Who acts:** Younger brains, rating, families, brains · **What happens:** learn, handle, help, choose, press · **To what, where:** strong pictures, families, play

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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 (Younger brains, rating, families, brains), 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:3
# text = Younger brains are still learning to handle strong pictures and feelings, so the rating helps families choose before they press play, not after.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rating	rating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
17	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
19	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	press	press	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **learn** | present · progressive | Younger brains |  |  |  | still |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **handle** | to-infinitive | Younger brains *not said here* | strong pictures and feelings |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | present | the rating | families |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 4 | **choose** | infinitive | families *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **press** | present | brains *= brain* | play |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme |

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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:3`.

**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, 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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