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title: The "buy" button in a game or app on a family tablet is not pretend:… — Mum's card, in-app buys and subscriptions that r… · tree and pragmatics
description: The "buy" button in a game or app on a family tablet is not pretend: it usually uses a real bank card saved on the account, so every tap spends real money, and Sophie's 6 taps at £4.99 cost £29.94. Who acts: buy button, button, tap, 6 taps. A sentence of the lesson «Mum's card, in-app buys and subsc
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# Mum's card, in-app buys and subscriptions that renew, sentence 0

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The "buy" button in a game or app on a family tablet is not pretend: it usually uses a real bank card saved on the account, so every tap spends real money, and Sophie's 6 taps at £4.99 cost £29.94.

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**Who acts:** buy button, button, tap, 6 taps, Sophie · **What happens:** not be, use, save, spend, cost, tap · **To what, where:** real bank card, account, real money, £

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mum's card, in-app buys and subscriptions that renew» 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 (buy button, button, tap, 6 taps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:018-mum-s-card-in-app-buys-and-subscriptions-that-renew.lesson:0
# text = The "buy" button in a game or app on a family tablet is not pretend: it usually uses a real bank card saved on the account, so every tap spends real money, and Sophie's 6 taps at £4.99 cost £29.94.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 018-mum-s-card-in-app-buys-and-subscriptions-that-renew.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
3	buy	buy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
5	button	button	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	app	app	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	pretend	pretend	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	spends	spend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
35	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=34:punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
39	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	_
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	taps	tap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	£	£	SYM	$	_	42	nmod	_	_
45	4.99	4.99	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	44	nummod	_	_
46	cost	cost	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
47	£	£	X	GW	_	46	obj	_	_
48	29.94	29.94	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac	47	flat	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | the buy button in a game on a family tablet or app |  |  |  |  | pretend *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present | button | a real bank card |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Patient |
| 3 | **save** | participle |  | a real bank card *not said here* |  | the account |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on account=Source |
| 4 | **spend** | present | every tap | real money |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
| 5 | **cost** | present | Sophie's 6 taps | £ |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value |
| 6 | **tap** |  | Sophie |  |  |  |  |  | nom tap «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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