--- title: The shop assistant said yes: in the UK it is against the law to sell… — GTA 6: what rated 18 means · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: shop assistant, Mia, boy, assistant. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shop assistant, Mia, boy, assistant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means.lesson:19 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means.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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 assistant assistant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 4 discourse _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 against against ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:acl 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 rated rate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 24 under under ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 away away ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 before before SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 even even ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 though though SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 ccomp _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the shop assistant | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | the UK | | against the law | tree rules | | 3 | **sell** | to-infinitive | | a 18 rated game | anyone | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent game=Theme to anyone=Recipient | | 4 | **rate** | participle | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **send away** | past · perfect | Mia | a boy | | | day | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | boy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | past | assistant | | | | | for boy's uncle | tree rules | 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. **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:422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means.lesson:19`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [GTA 6: what rated 18 means, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/18/) - next →: [GTA 6: what rated 18 means, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/422-gta-6-what-rated-18-means/)