The parents walk in: how good parents react, sentence 16

Parents may explain simply why a film is rated 18: it has things that are too strong or too grown-up for children.

Who acts: Parents, film, things · What happens: explain, rate, have, be, grow up · To what, where: film, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The parents walk in: how good parents react» 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 (Parents, film, things), 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	Parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 explain	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 explain	aux
3	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	simply	simply	ADV	_	3 explain	advmod
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 rated	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 film	det
7	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rated	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rated	aux:pass
9	rated	rate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 explain	ccomp
10	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 rated	xcomp
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 has	nsubj
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 explain	parataxis
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 has	obj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 strong	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 strong	cop
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 strong	advmod
18	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 things	acl:relcl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 grown	cc
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 grown	advmod
21	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 strong	conj
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 up	punct
23	up	up	ADP	_	21 grown	compound:prt
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 children	case
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 grown	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 explain	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	may	Parents		simply property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	rate	present · passive		a film		vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	have	present	film	things		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
4	is	present	things		strong property	tree rules
5	grow up	participle	things not said here		for children	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:059-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react.lesson:16.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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