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title: Her mum paid her for hoovering, so she worked out what the skin real… — In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her mum paid her for hoovering, so she worked out what the skin really cost: not «just 1,500 V-bucks», but twelve hours of hoovering the stairs. Who acts: mum, skin, twelve hours. A sentence of the lesson «In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem» of the everyday course of Mova's prim
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# In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem, sentence 5

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Her mum paid her for hoovering, so she worked out what the skin really cost: not «just 1,500 V-bucks», but twelve hours of hoovering the stairs.

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**Who acts:** mum, skin, twelve hours · **What happens:** pay, work out, cost, hoover · **To what, where:** Priya, stairs

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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 (mum, skin, twelve hours), 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:5
# text = Her mum paid her for hoovering, so she worked out what the skin really cost: not «just 1,500 V-bucks», but twelve hours of hoovering the stairs.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
6	hoovering	hoover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	really	really	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	cost	cost	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	1,500	1,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
22	V	v	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	bucks	buck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	acl	_	_
25	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
31	hoovering	hoover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Priya's mum | Priya |  |  |  | for hoovering | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Asset for hoover=Theme |
| 2 | **work out** | past | mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **cost** | past | the skin |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value |
| 4 | **hoover** | gerund | twelve hours *not said here* | the stairs |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent stair=Initial\_Location |

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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:5`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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