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title: "Free" things in games are often paid for with your time and attenti… — Loot boxes and "free" skins · tree and pragmatics
description: "Free" things in games are often paid for with your time and attention to adverts, which earn the game money. Who acts: adverts. A sentence of the lesson «Loot boxes and "free" skins» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Loot boxes and "free" skins, sentence 10

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"Free" things in games are often paid for with your time and attention to adverts, which earn the game money.

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**Who acts:** adverts · **What happens:** pay, earn · **To what, where:** Free things, game money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Loot boxes and "free" skins» 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 (adverts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:017-loot-boxes-and-free-skins.lesson:10
# text = "Free" things in games are often paid for with your time and attention to adverts, which earn the game money.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 017-loot-boxes-and-free-skins.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
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	adverts	advert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	earn	earn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: other
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present · passive |  | Free things in games |  |  | time | often *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **earn** | present | adverts | the game money |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |

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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:017-loot-boxes-and-free-skins.lesson:10`.

**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. **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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