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title: A boy in England paid for an «influencer's» favourite gadget after a… — Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adve… · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in England paid for an «influencer's» favourite gadget after a video; it was a paid advert, and the gadget broke in a week. Who acts: boy, friend, gadget. A sentence of the lesson «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» of the everyday course of Mov
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# Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers, sentence 25

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A boy in England paid for an «influencer's» favourite gadget after a video; it was a paid advert, and the gadget broke in a week.

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**Who acts:** boy, friend, gadget · **What happens:** pay, be, break · **To what, where:** paid advert

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» of the everyday 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 (boy, friend, gadget), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:25
# text = A boy in England paid for an «influencer's» favourite gadget after a video; it was a paid advert, and the gadget broke in a week.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-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 ×1
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	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	influencer	influencer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
12	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gadget	gadget	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	advert	advert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	gadget	gadget	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | a boy in England |  |  |  | after a video | for a influencer's favourite gadget | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for gadget=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | friend | a paid advert |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **break** | past | the gadget |  |  |  | week |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:25`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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