Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, sentence 20
Our brains remember disappointments more than good luck; keeping a simple tally shows the real numbers.
Who acts: brains, keeping · What happens: remember, keep, show · To what, where: disappointments, simple tally, real numbers · 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 (brains, keeping), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brains | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remember | nsubj |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | disappointments | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remember | obj |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 remember | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 luck | case |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 luck | amod |
| 8 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 more | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
| 10 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 shows | csubj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tally | det |
| 12 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tally | amod |
| 13 | tally | tally | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keeping | obj |
| 14 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 remember | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 numbers | det |
| 16 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 numbers | amod |
| 17 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shows | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | Our brains | disappointments | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent disappointment=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | a simple tally | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tally=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show | present | keeping | the real numbers | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient |
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:20.
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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