--- title: Waiting a few days before a big spend helps you see whether you real… — In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana… · tree and pragmatics description: Waiting a few days before a big spend helps you see whether you really want it. Who acts: Waiting, you. 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 the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/412-in-game-purchases-and-skins/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [In-game purchases and skins: the danci…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/412-in-game-purchases-and-skins/) / 28 # In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem, sentence 28 Waiting a few days before a big spend helps you see whether you really want it. **Who acts:** Waiting, you · **What happens:** wait, help, see, want · **To what, where:** big spend, you, history · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Waiting, you), 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:28 # text = Waiting a few days before a big spend helps you see whether you really want it. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obj 5 before before ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 spend spend NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 really really ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - indirect: yes - teacher: changed act=suggest, indirect=1 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | gerund | | | | a big spend | day | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before spend=Location | | 2 | **help** | present | Waiting | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **want** | present | you | history | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | 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:28`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [In-game purchases and skins: the danci…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/412-in-game-purchases-and-skins/27/) - next →: [In-game purchases and skins: the danci…, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/412-in-game-purchases-and-skins/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/412-in-game-purchases-and-skins/)