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title: In the USA and Canada games are rated by the ESRB; M means Mature, s… — What the numbers on the box mean · tree and pragmatics
description: In the USA and Canada games are rated by the ESRB; M means Mature, suitable for about 17 and up. Who acts: ESRB, M. A sentence of the lesson «What the numbers on the box mean» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What the numbers on the box mean, sentence 27

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In the USA and Canada games are rated by the ESRB; M means Mature, suitable for about 17 and up.

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**Who acts:** ESRB, M · **What happens:** rate, mean · **To what, where:** games, USA, Mature

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What the numbers on the box mean» 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 (ESRB, M), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean.lesson:27
# text = In the USA and Canada games are rated by the ESRB; M means Mature, suitable for about 17 and up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	rated	rate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ESRB	ESRB	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	M	m	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
14	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Mature	mature	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	up	up	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14: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 | **rate** | present · passive | the ESRB | games |  | the USA and Canada |  |  | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present | M | Mature |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mature=Topic |

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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:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean.lesson:27`.

**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, R8-pos-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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