Loot boxes and the surprise trap, sentence 7
Leo thought that was a bit much, so his dad explained: a fruit machine takes your money, spins, flashes lights, and now and then pays out, so you keep feeding it.
Who acts: Leo, that, dad, fruit machine, you · What happens: think, be, explain, take, spin, flash · To what, where: money, lights, machine · 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 (Leo, that, dad, fruit machine), 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 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 much | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 much | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bit | det |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 much | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 explained | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 explained | advmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dad | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 explained | nsubj |
| 12 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 takes | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 machine | det |
| 15 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 machine | compound |
| 16 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 takes | nsubj |
| 17 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 explained | ccomp |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 money | nmod:poss |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 takes | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spins | punct |
| 21 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 takes | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flashes | punct |
| 23 | flashes | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 takes | conj |
| 24 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flashes | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 pays | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pays | cc |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 pays | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pays | cc |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 pays | advmod |
| 30 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 pays | compound:prt |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 keep | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 keep | advmod |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 keep | nsubj |
| 35 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 pays | conj |
| 36 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 keep | xcomp |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 feeding | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Leo | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | that | a bit obl:unmarked; much property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | past | Leo's dad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take | present | a fruit machine | your money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 5 | spin | present | a fruit machine not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | flash | present | a fruit machine not said here | lights | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=Theme | ||||
| 7 | pay out | present | now; then | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | keep | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | feed | gerund | you not said here | machine | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:7.
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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