Loot boxes and "free" skins, sentence 7

Many experts say loot boxes are like gambling; game companies say they are just surprises; people disagree.

Who acts: Many experts, loot boxes, game companies, companies, people · What happens: say, be, disagree · To what, where: 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, game companies, companies), 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	8 gambling	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gambling	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 gambling	case
8	gambling	gamble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	ccomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
10	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 companies	compound
11	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 surprises	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 surprises	cop
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 surprises	advmod
16	surprises	surprise	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 say	ccomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 disagree	punct
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 disagree	nsubj
19	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 say	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	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
2	is	present	loot boxes		like gambling	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	game companies			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	companies = company	surprises		tree rules
5	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: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): no change. 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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