Loot boxes and the surprise trap, sentence 16

Then she showed them: each box is a fresh try that does not remember the last one, so even after a hundred boxes, about one person in three still has not won.

Who acts: chance, box, fresh try, one person · What happens: show, be, not remember, not win · To what, where: maths, fresh try, last one

This is a sentence of the lesson «Loot boxes and the surprise trap» 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 (chance, box, fresh try, one person), 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	Then	then	ADV	_	3 showed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	iobj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 showed	punct
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 box	det
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 try	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 try	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 try	det
10	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 try	amod
11	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	parataxis
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 remember	nsubj
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 remember	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 remember	advmod
15	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 try	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 one	det
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 one	amod
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 remember	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 won	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	35 won	advmod
21	even	even	ADV	_	25 boxes	advmod
22	after	after	ADP	_	25 boxes	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 boxes	det
24	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 boxes	nummod
25	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 won	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 person	punct
27	about	about	ADV	_	28 one	advmod
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 person	nummod
29	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 won	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 three	case
31	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 person	nmod
32	still	still	ADV	_	35 won	advmod
33	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 won	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 won	advmod
35	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 try	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 showed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	show	past	chance		maths = math	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is a	present	each box	a fresh try			tree rules
3	not remember	present · do-support	a fresh try	the last one			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	not win	present · perfect	one person in three			after a hundred boxes; still	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap.lesson:16.

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, R6-punct-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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