In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem, sentence 13

Jayden bought a skin because his favourite YouTuber wore it, then found out the YouTuber had been paid to show it off: it was an advert dressed up as a friend's tip.

Who acts: Jayden, favourite YouTuber, skin · What happens: buy, wear, find out, pay, show off, be · To what, where: skin, YouTuber, advert · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem» 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 (Jayden, favourite YouTuber, skin), 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	Jayden	Jayden	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bought	nsubj
2	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 skin	det
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bought	obj
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 wore	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 YouTuber	nmod:poss
7	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 YouTuber	amod
8	YouTuber	YouTuber	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wore	nsubj
9	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bought	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wore	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 found	advmod
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bought	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 found	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 YouTuber	det
16	YouTuber	YouTuber	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 paid	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 paid	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 paid	aux:pass
19	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 found	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 show	mark
21	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 paid	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 show	obj
23	off	off	ADP	_	21 show	compound:prt
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 advert	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 advert	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 advert	cop
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 advert	det
28	advert	advert	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bought	parataxis
29	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 advert	acl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 dressed	compound:prt
31	as	as	ADP	_	35 tip	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 friend	det
33	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tip	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 friend	case
35	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dressed	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bought	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past	Jayden	a skin			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
2	wear	past	Jayden's favourite YouTuber	skin			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	find out	past	Jayden not said here		then		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pay	past · perfect · passive		the YouTuber			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
5	show off	to-infinitive		skin			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
6	is a	past	skin	a advert			tree rules
7	dress up	participle		a advert not said here		as a friend's tip	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:412-in-game-purchases-and-skins.lesson:13.

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.

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