Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers, sentence 25

A boy in England paid for an «influencer's» favourite gadget after a video; it was a paid advert, and the gadget broke in a week.

Who acts: boy, friend, gadget · What happens: pay, be, break · To what, where: paid advert

This is a sentence of the lesson «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» 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, friend, gadget), 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 paid	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 England	case
4	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	13 gadget	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 influencer	det
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 influencer	punct
9	influencer	influencer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gadget	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 influencer	case
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 gadget	punct
12	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gadget	amod
13	gadget	gadget	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obl
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 video	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 video	det
16	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 paid	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 advert	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 advert	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 advert	det
21	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 advert	amod
22	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 broke	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 broke	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 gadget	det
26	gadget	gadget	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 broke	nsubj
27	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 paid	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 week	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 week	det
30	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 broke	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 paid	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	a boy in England		after a video	for a influencer's favourite gadget	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for gadget=Theme
2	pay	participle					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	friend	a paid advert			tree rules
4	break	past	the gadget		week		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:25.

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 ×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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