Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, sentence 22
Some games publish their drop chances, so you can look them up instead of guessing.
Who acts: games, you, items · What happens: publish, look up, guess, chance · To what, where: drop chances, items
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, you, items), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 games | det |
| 2 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 publish | nsubj |
| 3 | publish | publish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chances | nmod:poss |
| 5 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chances | compound |
| 6 | chances | chance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 publish | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 look | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 look | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 look | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 look | aux |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 publish | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 look | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 look | compound:prt |
| 14 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 guessing | mark |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 instead | fixed |
| 16 | guessing | guess | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 look | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 publish | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | present | some games | items's drop chances | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Result | ||||
| 2 | look up | can | you | items = item | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | guess | gerund | you not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | chance | items = item | 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:22.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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