--- title: Many videos of kids unboxing heaps of toys are really adverts: the t… — Regret, silly buys and peer pressure · tree and pragmatics description: Many videos of kids unboxing heaps of toys are really adverts: the toys were given free so that you would want them, and comparing yourself with them, or with older and richer people, can make you unhappy for no reason. Who acts: kids, Many videos, you, comparing. 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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 (kids, Many videos, you, comparing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:010-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure.lesson:2 # text = Many videos of kids unboxing heaps of toys are really adverts: the toys were given free so that you would want them, and comparing yourself with them, or with older and richer people, can make you unhappy for no reason. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 010-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 videos video NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 unboxing unbox VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 really really ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 adverts advert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl 17 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 22 mark _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 26 comparing compare VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 csubj _ _ 27 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 amod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 richer rich ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 conj _ _ 36 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 44 det _ _ 44 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **unbox** | gerund | kids *not said here* | heaps of toys | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Many videos of kids | adverts | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **give** | past · passive | | the toys | | | | free *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **want** | would | you | heaps *= heap* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | | 5 | **compare** | gerund | | yourself | | | | with videos *= video* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient with they=Co-Patient | | 6 | **make** | can | comparing | you | | | | unhappy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | 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:money:010-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure.lesson:2`. **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 ×2, 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: [Regret, silly buys and peer pressure, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure/1/) - next →: [Regret, silly buys and peer pressure, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/10-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure/)