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title: Family film nights work best when the film is not too long or too la… — Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to wa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Family film nights work best when the film is not too long or too late and everyone gets a turn to choose. Who acts: film nights, film, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» of the arts course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch, sentence 10

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Family film nights work best when the film is not too long or too late and everyone gets a turn to choose.

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**Who acts:** film nights, film, everyone · **What happens:** work, not be, be, get, choose · **To what, where:** turn

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» of the arts 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 (film nights, film, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:026-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch.lesson:10
# text = Family film nights work best when the film is not too long or too late and everyone gets a turn to choose.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 026-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch.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): no change
1	Family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **work** | present | film nights |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | the film |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the film *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | present | everyone | a turn |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turn=Stimulus |
| 5 | **choose** | to-infinitive | everyone *not said here* | a turn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:arts:026-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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