Age ratings in the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada, and why they exist, sentence 8

Each country has its own letters and numbers, but they all work the same way: the higher the number, the older you should be.

Who acts: country, letters, you · What happens: have, work, be, letter · To what, where: own letters, same way

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 (country, letters, you), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 country	det
2	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 letters	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 letters	amod
6	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 numbers	cc
8	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 letters	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 work	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 work	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 work	nsubj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 work	advmod
13	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 work	obj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 higher	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 higher	det
19	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 older	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 number	det
21	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 higher	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 older	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 older	det
24	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 has	parataxis
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 older	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 older	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 older	cop
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	each country	country's own letters and numbers		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient
2	work	present	letters = letter	the same way		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material
3	is	should	you		old property	tree rules
4	letter		country			nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=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:8.

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): no change. 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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