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title: Free apps and websites earn money from ads, so your attention is wha… — Adverts and how they work on you · tree and pragmatics
description: Free apps and websites earn money from ads, so your attention is what they sell; that is why ads pop up every few minutes and why trainers follow you around after one search. Who acts: Free apps, attention, apps, ads. A sentence of the lesson «Adverts and how they work on you» of the money course of
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# Adverts and how they work on you, sentence 3

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Free apps and websites earn money from ads, so your attention is what they sell; that is why ads pop up every few minutes and why trainers follow you around after one search.

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**Who acts:** Free apps, attention, apps, ads, trainers, your · **What happens:** earn, be, sell, pop up, follow around, attend · **To what, where:** money, ads, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adverts and how they work on you» 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 (Free apps, attention, apps, ads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:033-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you.lesson:3
# text = Free apps and websites earn money from ads, so your attention is what they sell; that is why ads pop up every few minutes and why trainers follow you around after one search.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 033-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	apps	app	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	websites	website	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	earn	earn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ads	ad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	parataxis	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sell	sell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	ads	ad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pop	pop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl:relcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
25	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	trainers	trainer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	around	around	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	after	after	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **earn** | present | Free apps and websites | money |  | ads |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme from ad=Source |
| 2 | **is a** | present | your attention |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sell** | present | apps *= app* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pop up** | present | ads |  |  |  | minute |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **follow around** | present | trainers | you |  |  | after one search | around *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **attend** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition 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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**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:033-adverts-and-how-they-work-on-you.lesson:3`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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