Loot boxes and the surprise trap, sentence 26
Rare items in loot boxes are made rare on purpose, so that people keep buying.
Who acts: people · What happens: make, keep, buy · To what, where: Rare items, purpose
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 (people), 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 | Rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 items | amod |
| 2 | items | item | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 boxes | case |
| 4 | loot | loot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boxes | compound |
| 5 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 items | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 made | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 purpose | case |
| 10 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 15 keep | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 keep | mark |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keep | nsubj |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | advcl |
| 16 | buying | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 keep | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | Rare items in loot boxes | purpose | rare property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 2 | keep | present | people | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | buy | gerund | people not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: 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:26.
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 ×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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