--- title: Games are designed to make you spend: tiny 99p prices that add up, c… — In-game currency: coins and gems are real money · tree and pragmatics description: Games are designed to make you spend: tiny 99p prices that add up, countdown clocks on "special offers" that come back every week, a flashy shop next to the play button, and daily streaks you are scared to break. Who acts: you, tiny 99 p prices, special offers. 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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 (you, tiny 99 p prices, special offers), 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:3 # text = Games are designed to make you spend: tiny 99p prices that add up, countdown clocks on "special offers" that come back every week, a flashy shop next to the play button, and daily streaks you are scared to break. # 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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 designed design VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 10 99 99 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 11 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 prices price NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 countdown countdown NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 clocks clock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 21 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 offers offer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 back back ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 28 det _ _ 28 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 flashy flashy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 33 next next ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:advmod 34 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=44:punct 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 daily daily ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 streaks streak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 44 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 acl:relcl _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **design** | present · passive | | Games | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | | you | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **spend** | infinitive | you *not said here* | tiny 99 p prices and countdown clocks on special offers and a flashy shop and daily streaks | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | tiny 99 p prices and countdown clocks on special offers and a flashy shop and daily streaks | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **come back** | present | special offers | | | | week | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | you | daily streaks *not said here* | | | | scared *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **break** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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:016-in-game-currency-coins-and-gems-are-real-money.lesson:3`. **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): R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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. 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