--- title: A boy in Canada spent all his birthday money on loot boxes in one ev… — Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Canada spent all his birthday money on loot boxes in one evening hoping for a rare skin; he never got it and the money was gone. Who acts: boy, money. 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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, money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers.lesson:27 # text = A boy in Canada spent all his birthday money on loot boxes in one evening hoping for a rare skin; he never got it and the money was gone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers.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 ×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 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 all all DET PDT _ 9 det:predet _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 loot loot NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 16 hoping hope VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | past | a boy in Canada | boy's birthday money | | | evening | on loot boxes *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset on box=Goal | | 2 | **hope** | gerund | a boy in Canada *not said here* | | | | | for a rare skin | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for skin=Theme | | 3 | **not** **get** | past | boy | money | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | past | the money | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers.lesson:27`. **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): R5-strong ×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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Advert tricks and offers that are too…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/26/) - next →: [Advert tricks and offers that are too…, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/28/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers/)