--- title: Australia passed a law, starting in December 2025, saying big social… — Guns, school safety and arguments about schools · tree and pragmatics description: Australia passed a law, starting in December 2025, saying big social media apps must stop under-16s from having accounts, news reports said. Who acts: Australia, big media apps, news reports. 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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 (Australia, big media apps, news reports), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:022-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools.lesson:18 # text = Australia passed a law, starting in December 2025, saying big social media apps must stop under-16s from having accounts, news reports said. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 022-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 December December PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nmod:unmarked _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 12 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 social social ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod 14 media media NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 apps app NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 18 under under ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 16s 16 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 17 obj _ _ 21 from from SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 advcl _ _ 23 accounts account NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 reports report NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 28 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | past | Australia | a law | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme law=Trajectory | | 2 | **start** | gerund | Australia *not said here* | | | | december | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Australia *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **stop** | must | big media apps | 16s | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality 16=Eventuality | | 5 | **have** | gerund | big media apps *not said here* | accounts | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Patient | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | news reports | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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:politics:022-guns-school-safety-and-arguments-about-schools.lesson:18`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-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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