In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem, sentence 26

YouTubers are sometimes paid to show off items; in the UK and USA such videos should say they are adverts.

Who acts: such videos, videos · What happens: pay, show off, say, be · To what, where: YouTubers, items, UK, adverts · 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 (such videos, videos), 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	YouTubers	youtuber	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 paid	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	aux:pass
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	_	4 paid	advmod
4	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 show	mark
6	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 paid	xcomp
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 show	compound:prt
8	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 show	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 UK	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 UK	det
12	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 say	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 USA	cc
14	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 UK	conj
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 videos	amod
16	videos	video	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 say	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 show	conj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 adverts	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 adverts	cop
21	adverts	advert	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 say	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pay	present · passive		YouTubers		sometimes property	tree rules
2	show off	to-infinitive		items			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent item=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	should	such videos		the UK and USA		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in uk=Manner
4	is a	present	videos = video	adverts			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:412-in-game-purchases-and-skins.lesson:26.

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): no change. 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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