Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, sentence 7

"I can't stop now, I've already spent twenty quid." That is the sunk cost trap: the money is gone whatever he does next.

Who acts: game, That, money, Sam · What happens: not stop, spend, be, do · To what, where: twenty quid, sunk cost trap, whatever · 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 (game, That, money, Sam), 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	_	5 stop	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 stop	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stop	advmod
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	now	now	ADV	_	5 stop	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 spent	nsubj
9	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 spent	aux
10	already	already	ADV	_	11 spent	advmod
11	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 stop	parataxis
12	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 quid	nummod
13	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spent	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct
16	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 trap	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 trap	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 trap	det
19	sunk	sunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trap	compound
20	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trap	compound
21	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	parataxis
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 trap	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 money	det
24	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gone	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 gone	cop
26	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 trap	parataxis
27	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 does	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 does	nsubj
29	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 gone	advcl
30	next	next	ADV	_	29 does	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not stop in a quote	can	the game = game		now		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	spend in a quote	present · perfect	the game = game	twenty quid			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quid=Asset
3	is a	present	That	the sunk cost trap			tree rules
4	is	present	the money			gone property	tree rules
5	do	present	Sam	whatever		next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality

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:7.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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