Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist, sentence 3

Younger brains are still learning to handle strong pictures and feelings, so the rating helps families choose before they press play, not after.

Who acts: Younger brains, rating, families, brains · What happens: learn, handle, help, choose, press · To what, where: strong pictures, families, play

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 (Younger brains, rating, families, brains), 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	Younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 brains	amod
2	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learning	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 learning	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 learning	advmod
5	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 handle	mark
7	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 learning	xcomp
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pictures	amod
9	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 handle	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 feelings	cc
11	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pictures	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 helps	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 helps	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rating	det
15	rating	rating	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 helps	nsubj
16	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 learning	parataxis
17	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 helps	obj
18	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 helps	xcomp
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 press	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 press	nsubj
21	press	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 choose	advcl
22	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 press	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 press	punct
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 after	advmod
25	after	after	ADP	_	18 choose	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 learning	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	learn	present · progressive	Younger brains		still	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	handle	to-infinitive	Younger brains not said here	strong pictures and feelings		vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
3	help	present	the rating	families		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent family=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	choose	infinitive	families not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	press	present	brains = brain	play		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=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:3.

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, R8-pos-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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