--- title: Priya used her aunt's gift card to buy her aunt's favourite characte… — Gift cards and birthday money: making it last · tree and pragmatics description: Priya used her aunt's gift card to buy her aunt's favourite character in the game, and her aunt laughed so much that she started playing herself. Who acts: Priya, aunt. 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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 (Priya, aunt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:15 # text = Priya used her aunt's gift card to buy her aunt's favourite character in the game, and her aunt laughed so much that she started playing herself. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.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 Priya Priya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 favourite favourite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 much much ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 28 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 xcomp _ _ 29 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | past | Priya | Priya's aunt's gift card | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Patient | | 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive | Priya *not said here* | Priya's aunt's favourite character | | the game | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Theme | | 3 | **laugh** | past | Priya's aunt | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **start** | past | aunt | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **play** | gerund | aunt *not said here* | aunt | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=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:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:15`. **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: [Gift cards and birthday money: making…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/14/) - next →: [Gift cards and birthday money: making…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money/)