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title: Ratings look at much more than swearing: a frightening or violent sc… — Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to wa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ratings look at much more than swearing: a frightening or violent scene can matter more than a rude word. Who acts: Ratings, frightening scene. 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 
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# Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch, sentence 7

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Ratings look at much more than swearing: a frightening or violent scene can matter more than a rude word.

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**Who acts:** Ratings, frightening scene · **What happens:** look, swear, matter · **To what, where:** more

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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 (Ratings, frightening scene), 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:7
# text = Ratings look at much more than swearing: a frightening or violent scene can matter more than a rude word.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Ratings	rating	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	obl	_	_
6	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	swearing	swear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:acl
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	frightening	frightening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	obj	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
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 | **look** | present | Ratings |  |  |  |  | at more | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at more=Theme |
| 2 | **swear** | gerund | Ratings *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **matter** | can | a frightening scene | more |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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