--- title: Parents may explain simply why a film is rated 18: it has things tha… — The parents walk in: how good parents react · tree and pragmatics description: Parents may explain simply why a film is rated 18: it has things that are too strong or too grown-up for children. Who acts: Parents, film, things. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parents, film, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:059-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react.lesson:16 # text = Parents may explain simply why a film is rated 18: it has things that are too strong or too grown-up for children. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 059-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 simply simply ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 rated rate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 ccomp _ _ 10 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 too too ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 20 too too ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | may | Parents | | | | | simply *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **rate** | present · passive | | a film | | | | | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | film | things | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | things | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **grow up** | participle | things *not said here* | | | | | for children | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:059-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react.lesson:16`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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. 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