Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, sentence 23

Words people use: "drops" are the items a game gives you, "a skin" is a new look for a character, "quid" means pounds (UK money), "galaxy brain" is sarcastic for a silly idea, "a vibe" is a feeling, and "bestie" means best friend.

Who acts: people, drops, game, skin, new look, galaxy brain · What happens: use, be, give, mean · To what, where: Words, items, you, new look, pounds, feeling · 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 (people, drops, game, skin), 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	Words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	obj
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	nsubj
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 means	advcl
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 items	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 drops	punct
6	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 items	nsubj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 drops	punct
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 items	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 items	det
10	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 game	det
12	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gives	nsubj
13	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 items	acl:relcl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 gives	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 skin	det
18	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 look	nsubj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 skin	punct
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 look	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 look	det
22	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 look	amod
23	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 means	nsubj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 character	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 character	det
26	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 look	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 quid	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 quid	punct
29	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 means	nsubj
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 quid	punct
31	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 means	obj
33	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 money	punct
34	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 money	compound
35	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pounds	appos
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 money	punct
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sarcastic	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 brain	punct
39	galaxy	galaxy	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 brain	compound
40	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sarcastic	nsubj
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 brain	punct
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 sarcastic	cop
43	sarcastic	sarcastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 means	conj
44	for	for	ADP	_	47 idea	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 idea	det
46	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 idea	amod
47	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sarcastic	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 sarcastic	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 sarcastic	punct
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 vibe	det
51	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 feeling	nsubj
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 vibe	punct
53	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 feeling	cop
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 feeling	det
55	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 means	ccomp
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 means	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 means	cc
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	59 bestie	punct
59	bestie	bestie	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 means	nsubj
60	"	"	PUNCT	_	59 bestie	punct
61	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 means	conj
62	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	63 friend	amod
63	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 means	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	people	Words			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
2	is a	present	drops	the items			tree rules
3	give	present	a game	the items not said here	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	is a	present	a skin	a new look		for a character	tree rules
5	mean	present	a new look	pounds			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Topic
6	is	present	galaxy brain			for a silly idea; sarcastic property	tree rules
7	is a	present	a vibe	a feeling			tree rules
8	mean	present	bestie	best friend			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic

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:23.

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, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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