Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, sentence 8
The only real question is whether the next box is worth it.
Who acts: only real question · What happens: be
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 (only real question), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 question | det |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 question | amod |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 question | amod |
| 4 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 worth | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 worth | cop |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 11 worth | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 box | det |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 box | amod |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 worth | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 worth | cop |
| 11 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 worth | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the only real question | worth property | 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:8.
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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