--- title: A boy in Ontario tapped "buy" again and again in a free game with hi… — Puzzles, money and video games · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ontario tapped "buy" again and again in a free game with his mum's card saved on the tablet; he spent over a thousand dollars in a week, and the family struggled to pay the bills. Who acts: boy, family. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:243-puzzles-and-video-games.lesson:23 # text = A boy in Ontario tapped "buy" again and again in a free game with his mum's card saved on the tablet; he spent over a thousand dollars in a week, and the family struggled to pay the bills. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 243-puzzles-and-video-games.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ontario Ontario PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 tapped tap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 buy buy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 again again ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 again again ADV RB _ 9 conj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 21 saved save VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 tablet tablet NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 28 over over ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det 30 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 dollars dollar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obl 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 struggled struggle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 bills bill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tap** | past | a boy in Ontario | buy | | a free game with boy's mum's card | again | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent buy=Theme in game=Destination | | 2 | **save** | participle | | boy's mum's card *not said here* | | the tablet | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on tablet=Source | | 3 | **spend** | past | boy | thousand dollars | | | week | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Asset | | 4 | **struggle** | past | the family | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **pay** | to-infinitive | the family *not said here* | the bills | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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