Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, sentence 19

Many experts say loot boxes work like gambling, because you pay money for a random chance at a prize, and some countries have rules about them.

Who acts: Many experts, loot boxes, you, countries · What happens: say, work, pay, have · To what, where: money, prize, rules · 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, you, countries), 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	_	12 pay	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 pay	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 pay	nsubj
12	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 work	advcl
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pay	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 chance	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 chance	det
16	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 chance	amod
17	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pay	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 prize	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 prize	det
20	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pay	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 have	cc
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 countries	det
24	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 work	conj
26	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	obj
27	about	about	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 rules	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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
3	pay	present	you	money	a prize	for a random chance	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent money=Asset for chance=Theme
4	have	present	some countries	rules		about boxes = box	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient

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:19.

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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