Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, sentence 15
Random draws often come in clumps by chance; two lucky boxes in a row don't change the next box's chance, and thinking they do is the hot-hand fallacy.
Who acts: Random draws, two lucky boxes, boxes, thinking, next box · What happens: come, not change, think, do, be, chance · To what, where: clumps, chance, hand fallacy · 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 (Random draws, two lucky boxes, boxes, thinking), 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 | Random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 draws | amod |
| 2 | draws | draw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 clumps | case |
| 6 | clumps | clump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 come | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 chance | case |
| 8 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 change | punct |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 boxes | nummod |
| 11 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boxes | amod |
| 12 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 change | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 row | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 row | det |
| 15 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boxes | nmod |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 change | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 change | advmod |
| 18 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 box | det |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 box | amod |
| 21 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chance | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 box | case |
| 23 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 change | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fallacy | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 fallacy | cc |
| 26 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 fallacy | csubj |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 do | nsubj |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 thinking | ccomp |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 fallacy | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 fallacy | det |
| 31 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 hand | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 hot | punct |
| 33 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fallacy | compound |
| 34 | fallacy | fallacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 change | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Random draws | clumps | by chance; often property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in clump=Location | |||
| 2 | not change | present · do-support | two lucky boxes in a row | the next box's chance | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | do | present | boxes = box | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | thinking | the hand fallacy | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | chance | the next box | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=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:15.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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