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title: Ollie, asked by his mum how much he had spent on games that year, gu… — In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ollie, asked by his mum how much he had spent on games that year, guessed «about five pounds». Who acts: 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem, sentence 9

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Ollie, asked by his mum how much he had spent on games that year, guessed «about five pounds».

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**Who acts:** Ollie · **What happens:** ask, spend, guess · **To what, where:** games, five pounds

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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 (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:9
# text = Ollie, asked by his mum how much he had spent on games that year, guessed «about five pounds».
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:acl
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:det|HaikuPos=PRON:WDT:PronType=Rel
15	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | participle | Ollie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spend** | past · perfect | Ollie |  |  |  | year | on games *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent on game=Goal |
| 3 | **guess** | past | Ollie | five pounds |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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