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title: Some are advice for parents; some are the law, and a cinema can refu… — Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Ca… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some are advice for parents; some are the law, and a cinema can refuse to let you in. Who acts: Some, cinema. 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 tree and the pragmat
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# Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist, sentence 9

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Some are advice for parents; some are the law, and a cinema can refuse to let you in.

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**Who acts:** Some, cinema · **What happens:** be, refuse, not let in · **To what, where:** advice, law, you

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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 (Some, cinema), 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:9
# text = Some are advice for parents; some are the law, and a cinema can refuse to let you in.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cinema	cinema	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	refuse	refuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Some | advice |  |  |  | for parents | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | some | the law |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **refuse** | can | a cinema |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **let in** | to-infinitive | a cinema *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:9`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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