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title: They checked the purchase history together: forty-two pounds, in lit… — In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana… · tree and pragmatics
description: They checked the purchase history together: forty-two pounds, in little bits of 79p and £1.99 that he had never added up. Who acts: pounds, Ollie. A sentence of the lesson «In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem, sentence 10

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They checked the purchase history together: forty-two pounds, in little bits of 79p and £1.99 that he had never added up.

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**Who acts:** pounds, Ollie · **What happens:** check, not add up · **To what, where:** purchase history

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem» 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 (pounds, Ollie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:412-in-game-purchases-and-skins.lesson:10
# text = They checked the purchase history together: forty-two pounds, in little bits of 79p and £1.99 that he had never added up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 412-in-game-purchases-and-skins.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	checked	check	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	purchase	purchase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nummod
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
11	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	79	79	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	£	£	SYM	$	_	11	conj	_	_
21	1.99	1.99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | past | pounds *= pound* | the purchase history |  |  |  | together *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **add up** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Ollie |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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:412-in-game-purchases-and-skins.lesson:10`.

**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, 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.

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

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