Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist, sentence 10
In the UK the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) rates films: U (Universal, for everyone), PG (Parental Guidance), 12A, 12, 15 and 18; 15 and 18 mean nobody younger may buy or see them.
Who acts: British Board, 15, nobody · What happens: rate, mean, buy, see · To what, where: films, UK, U · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist» of the adult life 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 (British Board, 15, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 UK | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 UK | det |
| 3 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 rates | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Board | det |
| 5 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Board | compound |
| 6 | Board | board | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 rates | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Classification | case |
| 8 | Film | film | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Classification | compound |
| 9 | Classification | classification | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Board | nmod |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 BBFC | punct |
| 11 | BBFC | bbfc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rates | compound |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 BBFC | punct |
| 13 | rates | rate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rates | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 U | punct |
| 16 | U | U | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 films | appos |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 Universal | punct |
| 18 | Universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 U | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Board | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 everyone | case |
| 21 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 U | nmod |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 everyone | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 PG | punct |
| 24 | PG | PG | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 U | conj |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 Guidance | punct |
| 26 | Parental | parental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Guidance | amod |
| 27 | Guidance | guidance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 PG | appos |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 Guidance | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 12A | punct |
| 30 | 12A | 12A | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 U | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 12 | punct |
| 32 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 PG | list |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 15 | punct |
| 34 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 12 | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 18 | cc |
| 36 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 15 | conj |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 15 | punct |
| 38 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 mean | nsubj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 18 | cc |
| 40 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 15 | conj |
| 41 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 rates | parataxis |
| 42 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 45 buy | nsubj |
| 43 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 42 nobody | amod |
| 44 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 buy | aux |
| 45 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 41 mean | ccomp |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 47 see | cc |
| 47 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 buy | conj |
| 48 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 see | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rates | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rate | present | the British Board of Film Classification | films | the UK | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme | |||
| 2 | mean | present | 15 | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | buy | may | nobody | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | nobody not said here | U | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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, 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:adult-life:057-age-ratings-and-why-they-exist.lesson:10.
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 ×3, R8-pos-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.
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