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title: Grown-ups can watch that and know it is a story; for a nine-year-old… — GTA 6: what rated 18 means · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Grown ups, content, cruelty. A sentence of the lesson «GTA 6: what rated 18 means» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# GTA 6: what rated 18 means, sentence 9

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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.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, content, cruelty · **What happens:** watch, know, be, make, look · **To what, where:** that, story, cruelty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «GTA 6: what rated 18 means» 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 (Grown ups, content, cruelty), 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:9
# text = 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.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	frightening	frightening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:parataxis
30	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **watch** | can | Grown ups | that |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | present | Grown ups *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | present | content | a story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | can | content |  |  |  |  | for a year old; frightening *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | can | content | cruelty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | infinitive | cruelty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**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): R7-rel-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.

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