--- title: Ruby's battle pass gave rewards only if she played every day (when s… — In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana… · tree and pragmatics description: Ruby's battle pass gave rewards only if she played every day (when she missed a few days she got fewer rewards, and found she did not really mind), and Noah's building game made him wait hours unless he spent gems — and when the gems ran out, it offered to sell him more for real 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 (battle pass, pass, building game, Noah), 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:16 # text = Ruby's battle pass gave rewards only if she played every day (when she missed a few days she got fewer rewards, and found she did not really mind), and Noah's building game made him wait hours unless he spent gems — and when the gems ran out, it offered to sell him more for real money. # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 pass pass NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 rewards reward NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 8 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 missed miss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl:unmarked 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 22 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 rewards reward NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 28 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 really really ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 mind mind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ _ 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 43 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:advcl 46 gems gem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ _ 47 — - PUNCT : _ 52 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 49 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 52 advmod _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 gems gem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nsubj _ _ 52 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 53 out out ADP RP _ 52 compound:prt _ _ 54 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 55 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 56 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 57 to to PART TO _ 58 mark _ _ 58 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 xcomp _ _ 59 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 iobj _ _ 60 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 58 obj _ _ 61 for for ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 63 amod _ _ 63 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ _ 64 . . 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 | **give** | past | Ruby's battle pass | rewards | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme | | 2 | **play** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | pass | | | | day | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **miss** | past | pass | | | | day | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **get** | past | pass | fewer rewards | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reward=Stimulus | | 5 | **find** | past | pass *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **not** **mind** | past · do-support | pass | | | | | | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **make** | past | Noah's building game | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **wait** | infinitive | Noah | | | | hour | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **spend** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Noah | gems | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gem=Asset | | 10 | **run out** | past | the gems | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **offer** | past | money | | | | | | tree rules | | 12 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | money *not said here* | more | Noah | | | for real money | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient more=Theme for money=Asset | | 13 | **pass** | | Ruby | | | | | | nom pass «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:412-in-game-purchases-and-skins.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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [In-game purchases and skins: the danci…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/412-in-game-purchases-and-skins/15/) - next →: [In-game purchases and skins: the danci…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/412-in-game-purchases-and-skins/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/412-in-game-purchases-and-skins/)