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title: Belgium was reported to ban paid loot boxes, and other countries hav… — Loot boxes and "free" skins · tree and pragmatics
description: Belgium was reported to ban paid loot boxes, and other countries have argued about limiting them. Who acts: other countries. 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 8

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Belgium was reported to ban paid loot boxes, and other countries have argued about limiting them.

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**Who acts:** other countries · **What happens:** report, ban, pay, argue, limit · **To what, where:** Belgium, paid loot boxes, countries

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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 (other countries), 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:8
# text = Belgium was reported to ban paid loot boxes, and other countries have argued about limiting them.
# 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): no change
1	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	ban	ban	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	loot	loot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	argued	argue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
15	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	limiting	limit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **report** | past · passive |  | Belgium |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ban** | to-infinitive |  | paid loot boxes |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer box=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · perfect | other countries |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **limit** | gerund | other countries *not said here* | countries *= country* |  |  |  |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=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:017-loot-boxes-and-free-skins.lesson:8`.

**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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