Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, sentence 10
Many experts say loot boxes work like gambling.
Who acts: Many experts, loot boxes · What happens: say, work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost» of the world 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), 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 | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |
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:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost.lesson:10.
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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