Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist, sentence 6
Anyone can watch it, but there might be a bit that scares little ones, so a grown-up should decide.
Who acts: Anyone, bit, grown up · What happens: watch, be, scare, grow, decide · To what, where: play, little ones
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 (Anyone, bit, grown up), 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 | Anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 watch | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 watch | aux |
| 3 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watch | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 be | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 be | cc |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 be | expl |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 be | aux |
| 9 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 watch | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bit | det |
| 11 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 be | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 scares | nsubj |
| 13 | scares | scare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bit | acl:relcl |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ones | amod |
| 15 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 scares | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 decide | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 decide | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 up | det |
| 19 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 up | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 up | punct |
| 21 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 decide | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 decide | aux |
| 23 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 watch | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | can | Anyone | play | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | might | a bit | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scare | present | a bit | little ones | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | decide | should | a grown up | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:6.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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