---
title: Theo then confessed that he had clicked a «free gems» link and his f… — «Free V-bucks» and other scams · tree and pragmatics
description: Theo then confessed that he had clicked a «free gems» link and his family's computer went slow and weird, popping up adverts for things nobody wanted. Who acts: Theo, computer, nobody. A sentence of the lesson ««Free V-bucks» and other scams» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/11/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [«Free V-bucks» and other scams](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/) / 11

# «Free V-bucks» and other scams, sentence 11

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Theo then confessed that he had clicked a «free gems» link and his family's computer went slow and weird, popping up adverts for things nobody wanted.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Theo, computer, nobody · **What happens:** confess, click, go, pop up, want · **To what, where:** gems link, adverts, things

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson ««Free V-bucks» and other scams» 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 (Theo, computer, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams.lesson:11
# text = Theo then confessed that he had clicked a «free gems» link and his family's computer went slow and weird, popping up adverts for things nobody wanted.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams.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 ×3
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	confessed	confess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	clicked	click	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
10	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	link	link	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	computer	computer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	popping	pop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	adverts	advert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	30	nsubj	_	_
30	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confess** | past | Theo |  |  |  | then |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **click** | past · perfect | Theo | a gems link |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location link=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | Theo's family's computer |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pop up** | gerund | Theo's family's computer *not said here* | adverts |  |  |  | for things | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location advert=Theme |
| 5 | **want** | past | nobody | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams.lesson:11`.

**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 ×3. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [«Free V-bucks» and other scams, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/10/)
- next →: [«Free V-bucks» and other scams, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/12/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/416-free-v-bucks-and-other-scams/)

