Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist, sentence 12
In the USA the ratings are G, PG, PG-13 (parents strongly cautioned, some material may not suit under-13s), R (under-17s need a parent or guardian with them) and NC-17 (nobody 17 or under).
Who acts: ratings, material, 17s · What happens: be, caution, not suit, need · To what, where: G, USA, parents, 13s, parent
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 (ratings, material, 17s), 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 USA | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 USA | det |
| 3 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 G | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ratings | det |
| 5 | ratings | rating | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 G | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 G | cop |
| 7 | G | G | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 PG | punct |
| 9 | PG | PG | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 G | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 PG | punct |
| 11 | PG | PG | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 PG | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 13 | punct |
| 13 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 PG | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 parents | punct |
| 15 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 13 | parataxis |
| 16 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 17 cautioned | advmod |
| 17 | cautioned | caution | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 parents | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 G | punct |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 material | det |
| 20 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 suit | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 suit | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 suit | advmod |
| 23 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 13 | acl |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 13s | case |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 under | punct |
| 26 | 13s | 13 | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 suit | obl |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 13s | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 R | punct |
| 29 | R | R | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 13s | appos |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 need | punct |
| 31 | under | under | ADP | _ | 33 17s | case |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 under | punct |
| 33 | 17s | 17 | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 need | nsubj |
| 34 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 R | parataxis |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 parent | det |
| 36 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 need | obj |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 guardian | cc |
| 38 | guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 parent | conj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 them | case |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 guardian | obl |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 need | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 NC | cc |
| 43 | NC | NC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 G | conj |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 17 | punct |
| 45 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 NC | appos |
| 46 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 47 nobody | punct |
| 47 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 29 R | appos |
| 48 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 47 nobody | flat |
| 49 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 50 under | cc |
| 50 | under | under | ADV | _ | 48 17 | conj |
| 51 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 47 nobody | punct |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 G | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the ratings | G and PG PG 13 and NC | the USA | tree rules | |||
| 2 | caution speech: other | participle | parents not said here | strongly property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not suit | may | some material | 13s | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | need | present | 17s | a parent or guardian | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot parent=Theme |
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:12.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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