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title: Most social media apps say users must be at least 13 years old, beca… — Staying safe and kind online · tree and pragmatics
description: Most social media apps say users must be at least 13 years old, because younger children need extra protection from what they might meet there; some countries set a higher age. Who acts: Most media apps, users, younger children, children. A sentence of the lesson «Staying safe and kind online» of th
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# Staying safe and kind online, sentence 17

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Most social media apps say users must be at least 13 years old, because younger children need extra protection from what they might meet there; some countries set a higher age.

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**Who acts:** Most media apps, users, younger children, children, countries · **What happens:** say, be, need, meet, set · **To what, where:** 13 years, extra protection, higher age · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying safe and kind online» 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 (Most media apps, users, younger children, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:059-staying-safe-and-kind-online.lesson:17
# text = Most social media apps say users must be at least 13 years old, because younger children need extra protection from what they might meet there; some countries set a higher age.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 059-staying-safe-and-kind-online.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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
2	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod
3	media	media	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	apps	app	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	users	user	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	nmod	_	_
11	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	ccomp	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
19	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	amod	_	_
33	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed hedge=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Most media apps |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | must | users | 13 years |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **need** | present | younger children | extra protection |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot protection=Theme |
| 4 | **meet** | might | children *= child* |  |  | there |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **set** | present | some countries | a higher age |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient age=Result |

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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:059-staying-safe-and-kind-online.lesson:17`.

**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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