--- title: Setting a spending limit before you start helps you stop when hoping… — Loot boxes and "free" skins · tree and pragmatics description: Setting a spending limit before you start helps you stop when hoping makes you want "just one more". Who acts: you, Setting, hoping. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Loot boxes and "free" skins](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/) / 15 # Loot boxes and "free" skins, sentence 15 Setting a spending limit before you start helps you stop when hoping makes you want "just one more". **Who acts:** you, Setting, hoping · **What happens:** set, start, help, stop, hope, make · **To what, where:** spending limit, you, one more 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 (you, Setting, hoping), 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:15 # text = Setting a spending limit before you start helps you stop when hoping makes you want "just one more". # 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, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Setting set VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 spending spending NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 limit limit NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 before before SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 8 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 12 hoping hope VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ _ 13 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 17 just just ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 obj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | gerund | | a spending limit | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient limit=Result | | 2 | **start** | present | you | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **help** | present | Setting | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **hope** | gerund | | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **make** | present | hoping | you | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **want** | infinitive | you *not said here* | one more | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme | 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:017-loot-boxes-and-free-skins.lesson:15`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Loot boxes and "free" skins, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/14/) - next →: [Loot boxes and "free" skins, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/)