In-game currency: coins and gems are real money, sentence 9
Games often let you either "grind" (play a lot to earn something) or pay to get it faster; paying is how many game companies earn money.
Who acts: Games, many game companies · What happens: let, play, earn, pay, get, be · To what, where: you, lot, something
This is a sentence of the lesson «In-game currency: coins and gems are real money» of the money 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 (Games, many game companies), 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 | Games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 let | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 7 grind | cc:preconj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 grind | punct |
| 7 | grind | grind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 you | conj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 grind | punct |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 play | punct |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 grind | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lot | det |
| 12 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 play | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 earn | mark |
| 14 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 play | advcl |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 earn | obj |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 play | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 pay | cc |
| 18 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 grind | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 pay | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 get | obj |
| 22 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 get | advmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 24 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 earn | csubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 earn | cop |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 many | advmod |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 companies | amod |
| 28 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 companies | compound |
| 29 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 earn | nsubj |
| 30 | earn | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 31 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 earn | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | present | Games | you | often property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | play | infinitive | a lot | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | |||||
| 3 | earn | to-infinitive | something | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pay | infinitive | Games not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | Games not said here | lot | fast property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | pay | gerund | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | is | present | many game companies | earn property | 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:money:016-in-game-currency-coins-and-gems-are-real-money.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 ×1, R7-rel-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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