Loot boxes and "free" skins, sentence 3

Many experts say loot boxes work like gambling, because you pay money and hope; some countries have limited or banned them, it was reported, while game companies say they are just surprises like a card pack, so people disagree.

Who acts: Many experts, loot boxes, you, countries, game companies, companies · What happens: say, work, pay, hope, limit, ban · To what, where: money, countries, box, surprises · 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 (Many experts, loot boxes, you, countries), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 experts	amod
2	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boxes	compound
5	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 work	nsubj
6	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 gambling	case
8	gambling	gambling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pay	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 pay	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 pay	nsubj
12	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 work	advcl
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pay	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hope	cc
15	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 pay	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 countries	det
18	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 limited	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 limited	aux
20	limited	limit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 say	parataxis
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 banned	cc
22	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 limited	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 banned	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pay	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 reported	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 reported	aux:pass
27	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 pay	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 say	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 say	mark
30	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 companies	compound
31	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 say	nsubj
32	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 reported	advcl
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 surprises	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 surprises	cop
35	just	just	ADV	_	36 surprises	advmod
36	surprises	surprise	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 say	ccomp
37	like	like	ADP	_	40 pack	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 pack	det
39	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 pack	compound
40	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 surprises	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 disagree	punct
42	so	so	ADV	_	44 disagree	advmod
43	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 disagree	nsubj
44	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Many experts			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	work	present	loot boxes		like gambling	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pay	present	you	money		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
4	hope	present	you not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	limit	present · perfect	some countries			vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer
6	ban	participle	some countries not said here	countries = country		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Theme
7	report	past · passive		box		vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	say speech: assert	present	game companies			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	is a	present	companies = company	surprises	like a card pack	tree rules
10	disagree	present	people			vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: 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:money:017-loot-boxes-and-free-skins.lesson:3.

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.

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