Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, sentence 12
A 1 in 100 chance per box means each box has a small chance; it does not promise one prize in every 100 boxes.
Who acts: 1 chance, box, mickey · What happens: mean, have, not promise · To what, where: small chance, one prize, 100 boxes · 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 (1 chance, box, mickey), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chance | det |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 chance | nummod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 100 | case |
| 4 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 1 | nmod |
| 5 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 6 | per | per | ADP | _ | 7 box | case |
| 7 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chance | nmod |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 box | det |
| 10 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 means | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chance | det |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chance | amod |
| 14 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 promise | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 promise | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 promise | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 promise | advmod |
| 19 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 means | parataxis |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 prize | nummod |
| 21 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 promise | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 boxes | case |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 boxes | det |
| 24 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 boxes | nummod |
| 25 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 promise | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a 1 chance per box | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | each box | a small chance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not promise speech: promise | present · do-support | mickey | one prize | every 100 boxes | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prize=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:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost.lesson:12.
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 ×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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