Puzzles, money and video games, sentence 23

A boy in Ontario tapped "buy" again and again in a free game with his mum's card saved on the tablet; he spent over a thousand dollars in a week, and the family struggled to pay the bills.

Who acts: boy, family · What happens: tap, save, spend, struggle, pay · To what, where: buy, free game, card, tablet, thousand dollars, bills

This is a sentence of the lesson «Puzzles, money and video games» of the everyday 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 (boy, family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tapped	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ontario	case
4	Ontario	Ontario	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 buy	punct
7	buy	buy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tapped	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 buy	punct
9	again	again	ADV	_	5 tapped	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 again	cc
11	again	again	ADV	_	9 again	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 game	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 game	det
14	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 game	amod
15	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tapped	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	20 card	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mum	nmod:poss
18	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 card	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 mum	case
20	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 game	nmod
21	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 card	acl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 tablet	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tablet	det
24	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saved	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 spent	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 spent	nsubj
27	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tapped	parataxis
28	over	over	ADV	_	30 thousand	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 thousand	det
30	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 dollars	nummod
31	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 spent	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 week	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 week	det
34	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spent	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 struggled	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 struggled	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 family	det
38	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 struggled	nsubj
39	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tapped	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 pay	mark
41	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 struggled	xcomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 bills	det
43	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 pay	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tapped	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	tap	past	a boy in Ontario	buy	a free game with boy's mum's card	again	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent buy=Theme in game=Destination
2	save	participle		boy's mum's card not said here	the tablet		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on tablet=Source
3	spend	past	boy	thousand dollars		week	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Asset
4	struggle	past	the family				tree rules
5	pay	to-infinitive	the family not said here	the bills			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset

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, 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:everyday:243-puzzles-and-video-games.lesson:23.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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