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title: A microtransaction is a small payment inside a game; many small paym… — In-game currency: coins and gems are real money · tree and pragmatics
description: A microtransaction is a small payment inside a game; many small payments add up to a big total. Who acts: microtransaction, many small payments. 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 pr
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# In-game currency: coins and gems are real money, sentence 7

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A microtransaction is a small payment inside a game; many small payments add up to a big total.

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**Who acts:** microtransaction, many small payments · **What happens:** be, add up · **To what, where:** small payment, 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 (microtransaction, many small payments), 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:7
# text = A microtransaction is a small payment inside a game; many small payments add up to a big total.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	microtransaction	microtransaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	payments	payment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	total	total	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a microtransaction | a small payment |  | a game |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **add up** *speech: assert* | present | many small payments |  |  |  |  | to a big total | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to total=Co-Patient |

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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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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