--- title: Games sell coins in packs that never quite match the prices: Ethan b… — In-game currency: coins and gems are real money · tree and pragmatics description: Games sell coins in packs that never quite match the prices: Ethan buys 1,000 V-Bucks for £7.99, but the skin costs 1,200, so he is 200 short and must buy another pack, spending £15.98 and keeping 800 left over that tempt him to spend again. Who acts: Games, packs, Ethan, skin. 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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 (Games, packs, Ethan, skin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:016-in-game-currency-coins-and-gems-are-real-money.lesson:1 # text = Games sell coins in packs that never quite match the prices: Ethan buys 1,000 V-Bucks for £7.99, but the skin costs 1,200, so he is 200 short and must buy another pack, spending £15.98 and keeping 800 left over that tempt him to spend again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 016-in-game-currency-coins-and-gems-are-real-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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sell sell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 packs pack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 7 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 8 quite quite ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 match match VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Ethan Ethan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 buys buy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 15 1,000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 16 V V NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 18 Bucks buck PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 14 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 £ £ SYM $ _ 14 obl _ _ 21 7.99 7.99 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 20 nummod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 27 1,200 1200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:nummod 33 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 advcl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 37 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 38 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 spending spend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 acl _ _ 41 £ £ SYM $ _ 40 obj _ _ 42 15.98 15.98 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 41 flat _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 conj _ _ 45 800 800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 44 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:nsubj 46 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 ccomp _ _ 47 over over PART RP _ 46 compound:prt _ _ 48 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 49 nsubj _ _ 49 tempt tempt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 acl:relcl _ _ 50 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 to to PART TO _ 52 mark _ _ 52 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 xcomp _ _ 53 again again ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 54 . . 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 | **sell** | present | Games | coins | | packs | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme | | 2 | **not** **match** | present | packs | the prices | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Patient | | 3 | **buy** | present | Ethan | 1,000 V Bucks | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent buck=Theme for £=Beneficiary | | 4 | **cost** | present | the skin | 1,200 | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme 1200=Value | | 5 | **is** | present | skin | | | | | 200 *obl*; short *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **buy** | must | skin *not said here* | another pack | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Theme | | 7 | **spend** | gerund | another pack *not said here* | | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset | | 8 | **keep** | gerund | another pack *not said here* | 800 | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **leave over** | past | another pack *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **tempt** | present | | skin | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 11 | **spend** | to-infinitive | | | | | again | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. 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