Loot boxes and "free" skins, sentence 1
Jake pays £2 for a box, gets a sword he already has, says "one more go" and opens 5 more: 6 boxes cost him £12 for one rare item, because the hope of the next box keeps you buying.
Who acts: Jake, 6 boxes, hope, you, next box · What happens: pay, get, have, say, open, cost · To what, where: £ 2, sword, 5 more, Jake, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Loot boxes and "free" skins» of the money 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 (Jake, 6 boxes, hope, you), 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 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pays | nsubj |
| 2 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 4 2 | compound |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 pays | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 box | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 box | det |
| 7 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pays | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gets | punct |
| 9 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pays | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sword | det |
| 11 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gets | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 has | nsubj |
| 13 | already | already | ADV | _ | 14 has | advmod |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sword | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pays | conj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 go | nummod |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 go | amod |
| 20 | go | go | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 says | ccomp |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 opens | cc |
| 23 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pays | conj |
| 24 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 more | nummod |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 opens | obj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 cost | punct |
| 27 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 boxes | nummod |
| 28 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 cost | nsubj |
| 29 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pays | parataxis |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 cost | iobj |
| 31 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 29 cost | obj |
| 32 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 £ | nummod |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 item | case |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 item | nummod |
| 35 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 item | amod |
| 36 | item | item | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cost | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 keeps | punct |
| 38 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 45 keeps | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 hope | det |
| 40 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 keeps | nsubj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 box | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 box | det |
| 43 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 box | amod |
| 44 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hope | nmod |
| 45 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 cost | advcl |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 keeps | obj |
| 47 | buying | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 45 keeps | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pays | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | present | Jake | £ 2 | for a box | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent 2=Asset for box=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | present | Jake not said here | a sword | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | present | Jake | a sword not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Jake not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | open | present | Jake not said here | 5 more | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme | ||||
| 6 | cost | infinitive | 6 boxes | Jake | for one rare item | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary £=Value | |||
| 7 | keep | present | the hope of the next box | you | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | buy | gerund | you not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | hope | the next box | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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:money:017-loot-boxes-and-free-skins.lesson:1.
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 ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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