Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, sentence 18
Games use random number generators (a part of the program that picks by chance), and there is no evidence that the time of day changes the chances; testing it would need hundreds of openings.
Who acts: Games, part, evidence, time · What happens: use, pick, be, change, test, need · To what, where: random number generators, chances, hundreds
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 (Games, part, evidence, time), 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 | Games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 use | nsubj |
| 2 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 generators | amod |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 generators | compound |
| 5 | generators | generator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 use | obj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 part | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 part | det |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 generators | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 program | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 program | det |
| 11 | program | program | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 part | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 picks | nsubj |
| 13 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 part | acl:relcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 chance | case |
| 15 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 picks | obl |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 part | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 is | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 is | cc |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 use | conj |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 evidence | det |
| 22 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 is | nsubj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 changes | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 changes | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 day | case |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 time | nmod |
| 28 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 evidence | acl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 chances | det |
| 30 | chances | chance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 changes | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 testing | punct |
| 32 | testing | test | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 need | csubj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 need | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 need | aux |
| 35 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 use | parataxis |
| 36 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 need | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 openings | case |
| 38 | openings | opening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 hundreds | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Games | random number generators | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent generator=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pick | present | a part of the program | by chance | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | be | present | no evidence | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | change | present | the time of day | the chances | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | ||||
| 5 | test | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | need | would | evidence | hundreds of openings | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hundred=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:18.
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): R6-punct-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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