--- title: GTA 6: what rated 18 means — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «GTA 6: what rated 18 means», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: At lunch Theo announced: «I'm getting GTA 6 for my birthday.» Within a minute the whole table was talking about it as if they had all played i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / GTA 6: what rated 18 means # GTA 6: what rated 18 means Lesson 422 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 27 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/0/) — At lunch Theo announced: «I'm getting GTA 6 for my birthday.» Within a minute the whole table was talking about it as if they had all played it for years. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/1/) — Jayden said that in GTA 6 you can fly to the Moon in a taxi. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/2/) — Someone else said you can buy a whole city. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/4/) — It turned out that Jayden had made up the Moon taxi to impress everyone, and that Theo had asked for it but his mum had already said no. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/5/) — «I said I was GETTING it,» Theo mumbled. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/6/) — «I didn't say I was getting it.» - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/7/) — At home Zara asked her mum what «mature content» on the box meant. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/9/) — Grown-ups can watch that and know it is a story; for a nine-year-old it can be frightening, or it can make cruelty look normal and funny. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/10/) — «So it's not that I'm too bad at games,» said Zara. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/11/) — «It's that it's not made for your age,» said her mum, «like a horror film isn't.» - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/12/) — Priya only wanted to explore GTA 6's huge sunny world, drive along the beach and look at the sunsets. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/13/) — Her dad said that was fair to want, and found her a different open-world game rated for her age where she can do just that. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/14/) — Ollie's dad plays GTA 6 after Ollie goes to bed, with headphones on. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/15/) — «Why is it OK for Dad?» Ollie asked. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/18/) — Leo's mum said: «Different families decide different things, but in this house we follow the rating.» Mia saw GTA 6 in a shop and asked if they check ages. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/19/) — The shop assistant said yes: in the UK it is against the law to sell an 18-rated game to anyone under 18, and she had sent a boy away the day before even though he said it was for his uncle. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/21/) — His big cousin laughed: «There'll be GTA 9 by then, mate.» - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/22/) — In the UK and Europe, games carry a PEGI age rating such as 3, 7, 12, 16 or 18. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/23/) — A PEGI 7 game may have only mild, cartoon-style fighting, like soft cartoon monsters; PEGI 16 and 18 games have realistic violence. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/25/) — An age rating tells you what is in a game, not how hard the game is to play. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/26/) — A game rated 18 can contain realistic violence, crime, strong swearing and adult scenes. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/27/) — In the UK it is against the law for a shop to sell a game rated 12, 16 or 18 to someone younger than that age. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/28/) — Content made for grown-ups can frighten younger children or make cruelty seem normal and funny. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/29/) — Many games with big worlds to explore are made for younger players too. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/30/) — Different families make different choices, but the rating is the official advice for every family. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/31/) — Stories told at school about what happens in a game are often exaggerated or made up. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/32/) — A grown-up playing an 18 game is not breaking a rule, because the rating is about the player's age. - ← previous: [Screen-time rules and arguments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments/) - next →: [Older siblings and YouTube gameplay](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)