Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true, sentence 27

A boy in Canada spent all his birthday money on loot boxes in one evening hoping for a rare skin; he never got it and the money was gone.

Who acts: boy, money · What happens: spend, hope, not get, be · To what, where: birthday money, loot boxes, money

This is a sentence of the lesson «Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true» 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, money), 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 spent	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Canada	case
4	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	_	9 money	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 money	nmod:poss
8	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 money	compound
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spent	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 boxes	case
11	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boxes	compound
12	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spent	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 evening	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 evening	nummod
15	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spent	obl
16	hoping	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 spent	advcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 skin	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 skin	det
19	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 skin	amod
20	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hoping	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 got	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 got	nsubj
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 got	advmod
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spent	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 got	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gone	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 money	det
28	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gone	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gone	cop
30	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 got	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	a boy in Canada	boy's birthday money	evening	on loot boxes goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset on box=Goal
2	hope	gerund	a boy in Canada not said here			for a rare skin	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for skin=Theme
3	not get	past	boy	money			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	is	past	the money			gone property	tree rules

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:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers.lesson:27.

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 ×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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