Loot boxes and the surprise trap, sentence 30
Paying money for a random chance at a prize works like gambling, and some countries, such as Belgium, have treated paid loot boxes as gambling.
Who acts: Paying · What happens: pay, work, treat · To what, where: money, prize, countries
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 (Paying), 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 | Paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 works | csubj |
| 2 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paying | obj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 chance | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chance | det |
| 5 | random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chance | amod |
| 6 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paying | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 prize | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 prize | det |
| 9 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paying | obl |
| 10 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 gambling | case |
| 12 | gambling | gambling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 works | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 treated | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 treated | cc |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 countries | det |
| 16 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Belgium | punct |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 20 Belgium | case |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 such | fixed |
| 20 | Belgium | Belgium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 countries | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 countries | punct |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 treated | aux |
| 23 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 works | conj |
| 24 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 boxes | amod |
| 25 | loot | loot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 boxes | compound |
| 26 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 treated | obj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 gambling | case |
| 28 | gambling | gambling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 treated | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 works | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | gerund | money | a prize | for a random chance | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Asset for chance=Theme | |||
| 2 | work | present | Paying | like gambling | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | treat | present · perfect · passive | some countries such Belgium | as gambling | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pay | participle | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: 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:30.
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): 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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