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title: Ratings exist because younger children are more easily upset and aff… — Parents' rules for big games · tree and pragmatics
description: Ratings exist because younger children are more easily upset and affected by violent or frightening content. Who acts: Ratings, younger children. 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 eve
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# Parents' rules for big games, sentence 36

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Ratings exist because younger children are more easily upset and affected by violent or frightening content.

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**Who acts:** Ratings, younger children · **What happens:** exist, be, affect

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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 (Ratings, younger children), 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:36
# text = Ratings exist because younger children are more easily upset and affected by violent or frightening content.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Ratings	rating	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod
8	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	affected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	frightening	frightening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **exist** | present | Ratings |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | younger children |  |  |  |  | easily, upset *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **affect** | participle | younger children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by violent content | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:36`.

**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. **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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