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title: In-game currency (coins, gems, V-Bucks, Robux) is pretend money insi… — In-game currency: coins and gems are real money · tree and pragmatics
description: In-game currency (coins, gems, V-Bucks, Robux) is pretend money inside a game, bought with real money. Who acts: game currency. A sentence of the lesson «In-game currency: coins and gems are real money» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# In-game currency: coins and gems are real money, sentence 4

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In-game currency (coins, gems, V-Bucks, Robux) is pretend money inside a game, bought with real money.

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**Who acts:** game currency · **What happens:** be, buy · **To what, where:** pretend money, game

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This is a sentence of the lesson «In-game currency: coins and gems are real money» of the money 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 (game currency), 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:4
# text = In-game currency (coins, gems, V-Bucks, Robux) is pretend money inside a game, bought with real money.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	currency	currency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
6	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	V	v	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
12	Bucks	buck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Robux	Robux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	pretend	pretend	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | game currency | pretend money |  | a game |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **buy** | participle | game currency *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with real money | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:4`.

**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 ×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/).

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