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title: Age limits on apps and games, often 13, exist to protect children fr… — Lies that do real harm · tree and pragmatics
description: Age limits on apps and games, often 13, exist to protect children from content and contacts that are not safe. Who acts: Age limits, contacts. A sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Lies that do real harm, sentence 15

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Age limits on apps and games, often 13, exist to protect children from content and contacts that are not safe.

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**Who acts:** Age limits, contacts · **What happens:** exist, protect, not be · **To what, where:** children

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» of the everyday 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 (Age limits, contacts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:197-harmful-lies.lesson:15
# text = Age limits on apps and games, often 13, exist to protect children from content and contacts that are not safe.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 197-harmful-lies.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	Age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	apps	app	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	contacts	contact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **exist** | present | Age limits on apps and games |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive | Age limits on apps and games *not said here* |  | children |  |  | from content and contacts | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary from content=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | contacts |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | 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:everyday:197-harmful-lies.lesson:15`.

**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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