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title: Films hide clues early on, so scrolling on a phone during a film mea… — Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to wa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Films hide clues early on, so scrolling on a phone during a film means missing details that matter later. Who acts: Films, scrolling, details. 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 the p
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# Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch, sentence 12

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Films hide clues early on, so scrolling on a phone during a film means missing details that matter later.

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**Who acts:** Films, scrolling, details · **What happens:** hide, scroll, mean, missing, matter · **To what, where:** clues, phone, details

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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 (Films, scrolling, details), 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:12
# text = Films hide clues early on, so scrolling on a phone during a film means missing details that matter later.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	clues	clue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	scrolling	scroll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl
15	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
16	missing	missing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	xcomp	_	_
17	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	matter	matter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **hide** | present | Films | clues |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient |
| 2 | **scroll** | gerund |  |  |  | a phone | during a film |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | scrolling |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **missing** *not said to happen* | gerund | scrolling *not said here* | details |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **matter** | present | details |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:12`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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