--- title: Games often let you either "grind" (play a lot to earn something) or… — In-game currency: coins and gems are real money · tree and pragmatics description: Games often let you either "grind" (play a lot to earn something) or pay to get it faster; paying is how many game companies earn money. Who acts: Games, many game companies. 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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, many game companies), 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:9 # text = Games often let you either "grind" (play a lot to earn something) or pay to get it faster; paying is how many game companies earn 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 either either CCONJ CC _ 7 cc:preconj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 grind grind NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 10 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 earn earn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp 15 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 24 paying pay VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 csubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 26 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 earn earn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 31 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 . . 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 | **let** | present | Games | you | | | | often *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 2 | **play** | infinitive | | a lot | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | | 3 | **earn** | to-infinitive | | something | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 4 | **pay** | infinitive | Games *not said here* | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | Games *not said here* | lot | | | | fast *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 6 | **pay** | gerund | | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | many game companies | | | | | earn *property* | tree rules | 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:9`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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