In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem, sentence 9

Ollie, asked by his mum how much he had spent on games that year, guessed «about five pounds».

Who acts: Ollie · What happens: ask, spend, guess · To what, where: games, five pounds

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 (Ollie), 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	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 guessed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ollie	punct
3	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 guessed	advcl
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 mum	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obl:agent
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 asked	ccomp
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 spent	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 spent	aux
11	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 much	acl:relcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 games	case
13	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 spent	obl
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spent	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 guessed	punct
17	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 pounds	punct
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 five	advmod
20	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 pounds	nummod
21	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 guessed	obj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 pounds	punct
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 guessed	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	ask speech: ask	participle	Ollie not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spend	past · perfect	Ollie		year	on games goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on game=Goal
3	guess	past	Ollie	five pounds			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Theme

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:9.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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