Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers, sentence 19

A loot box is like gambling: you pay without knowing what you get, and games make it exciting so you spend more.

Who acts: loot box, you, games · What happens: be, pay, know, get, make, spend · To what, where: box, more

This is a sentence of the lesson «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» 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 (loot box, you, games), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 box	compound
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gambling	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gambling	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 gambling	case
6	gambling	gambling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 pay	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 pay	nsubj
9	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gambling	parataxis
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 knowing	mark
11	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 pay	advcl
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 knowing	obj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 get	nsubj
14	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 make	cc
17	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	nsubj
18	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pay	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 make	obj
20	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 make	xcomp
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 spend	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 spend	nsubj
23	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 make	conj
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 spend	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gambling	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a loot box		like gambling	tree rules
2	pay	present	you			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	know	gerund	you not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	get	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	make	present	games	box	exciting property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
6	spend	present	you	more		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset

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:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:19.

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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