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title: In the UK it is against the law for a shop to sell a game rated 12,… — Parents' rules for big games · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK it is against the law for a shop to sell a game rated 12, 16 or 18 to a child younger than that age. Who acts: shop, game. A sentence of the lesson «Parents' rules for big games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Parents' rules for big games, sentence 28

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In the UK it is against the law for a shop to sell a game rated 12, 16 or 18 to a child younger than that age.

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**Who acts:** shop, game · **What happens:** be, sell, rate · **To what, where:** UK, game, child, 12

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents' rules for big games» 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 (shop, game), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:404-parents-rules-for-big-games.lesson:28
# text = In the UK it is against the law for a shop to sell a game rated 12, 16 or 18 to a child younger than that age.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 404-parents-rules-for-big-games.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:acl
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	rated	rate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
25	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the UK |  | against the law | tree rules |
| 2 | **sell** | to-infinitive | a shop | a game | a child |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent game=Theme to child=Recipient |
| 3 | **rate** | participle | a game *not said here* | 12 |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: 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:everyday:404-parents-rules-for-big-games.lesson:28`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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