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title: Checking the rating on a box, a poster or a streaming page before pr… — Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and pare… · tree and pragmatics
description: Checking the rating on a box, a poster or a streaming page before pressing play prevents many accidents. Who acts: Checking. A sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls, sentence 18

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Checking the rating on a box, a poster or a streaming page before pressing play prevents many accidents.

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**Who acts:** Checking · **What happens:** check, press, prevent · **To what, where:** rating, box, play, many accidents

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» 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 (Checking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.lesson:18
# text = Checking the rating on a box, a poster or a streaming page before pressing play prevents many accidents.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.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 ×2
1	Checking	check	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rating	rating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	poster	poster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	streaming	streaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
13	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	advcl	_	_
16	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	prevents	prevent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	accidents	accident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | gerund |  | the rating |  | a box and a poster or a streaming page |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rating=Theme |
| 2 | **press** | gerund |  | play |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme |
| 3 | **prevent** | present | Checking | many accidents |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer accident=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:060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.lesson:18`.

**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 ×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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