Loot boxes and the surprise trap, sentence 5
Every time a box shook and glowed before opening, his heart jumped — and that jump, his dad said, is exactly what the box is built to sell.
Who acts: box, heart, dad, jump · What happens: shook, glow, open, jump, say, be · To what, where: time, box · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (box, heart, dad, jump), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jumped | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 box | det |
| 4 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shook | nsubj |
| 5 | shook | shook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 time | acl:relcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 glowed | cc |
| 7 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shook | conj |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 opening | mark |
| 9 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 glowed | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 jumped | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jumped | nsubj |
| 13 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 what | cc |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 jump | det |
| 17 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 what | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dad | nmod:poss |
| 20 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 jumped | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 what | punct |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 what | cop |
| 24 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 25 what | advmod |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 jumped | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 box | det |
| 27 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 built | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 built | aux:pass |
| 29 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 what | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 sell | mark |
| 31 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 built | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shook | past | a box | every time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | glow | past | a box not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | open | gerund | a box not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | jump | past | Kai's heart | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Kai's dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | that jump | exactly property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | build | present · passive | the box | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | sell | to-infinitive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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:5.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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