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title: YouTubers are sometimes paid to show off items; in the UK and USA su… — In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana… · tree and pragmatics
description: YouTubers are sometimes paid to show off items; in the UK and USA such videos should say they are adverts. Who acts: such videos, videos. 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 tree and th
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# In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem, sentence 26

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YouTubers are sometimes paid to show off items; in the UK and USA such videos should say they are adverts.

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**Who acts:** such videos, videos · **What happens:** pay, show off, say, be · **To what, where:** YouTubers, items, UK, adverts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (such videos, videos), 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:26
# text = YouTubers are sometimes paid to show off items; in the UK and USA such videos should say they are adverts.
# 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): no change
1	YouTubers	youtuber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	items	item	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	videos	video	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	adverts	advert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	ccomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **pay** | present · passive |  | YouTubers |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **show off** | to-infinitive |  | items |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent item=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | should | such videos |  |  | the UK and USA |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in uk=Manner |
| 4 | **is a** | present | videos *= video* | adverts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:26`.

**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): no change. **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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