Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, sentence 3

"That's impossible! 100 boxes should give me one!" But 1 in 100 is a chance, not a promise.

Who acts: That, 100 boxes, 1 · What happens: be, give · To what, where: one, me, chance

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 (That, 100 boxes, 1), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 impossible	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	cop
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct
6	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 boxes	nummod
7	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 give	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 give	aux
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 impossible	parataxis
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 give	iobj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 give	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct
14	But	but	CCONJ	_	20 chance	cc
15	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 chance	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 100	case
17	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 1	nmod
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 chance	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 chance	det
20	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 impossible	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 promise	punct
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 promise	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 promise	det
24	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chance	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That			impossible property	tree rules
2	give in a quote	should	100 boxes	one	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=Theme
3	is a	present	1 in 100	a chance and a promise			tree rules

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:3.

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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