In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem, sentence 5

Her mum paid her for hoovering, so she worked out what the skin really cost: not «just 1,500 V-bucks», but twelve hours of hoovering the stairs.

Who acts: mum, skin, twelve hours · What happens: pay, work out, cost, hoover · To what, where: Priya, stairs

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 (mum, skin, twelve hours), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	nsubj
3	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 paid	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 hoovering	case
6	hoovering	hoover	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 worked	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 worked	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 worked	nsubj
10	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 worked	compound:prt
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 cost	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 skin	det
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cost	nsubj
15	really	really	ADV	_	16 cost	advmod
16	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 worked	ccomp
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 bucks	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 bucks	advmod
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	24 bucks	punct
20	just	just	ADV	_	24 bucks	advmod
21	1,500	1,500	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 bucks	nummod
22	V	v	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bucks	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 V	punct
24	bucks	buck	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cost	acl
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 bucks	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hours	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 hours	cc
28	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 hours	nummod
29	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hoovering	obl
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 hoovering	mark
31	hoovering	hoover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 hours	acl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stairs	det
33	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 hoovering	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 paid	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pay	past	Priya's mum	Priya	for hoovering	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Asset for hoover=Theme
2	work out	past	mum			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cost	past	the skin			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value
4	hoover	gerund	twelve hours not said here	the stairs		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stair=Initial_Location

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:5.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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