Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, sentence 9
Other traps hide in boxes too: a "lucky third pack", a "hot streak", "better drops at midnight", a streamer who shows only his best openings, and calling paid chance a "surprise".
Who acts: Other traps, streamer, paid chance · What happens: hide, show, call · To what, where: boxes, best openings, surprise · 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 (Other traps, streamer, paid chance), 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 traps | amod |
| 2 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hide | nsubj |
| 3 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 boxes | case |
| 5 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hide | obl |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 hide | advmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 pack | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pack | det |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pack | punct |
| 10 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pack | amod |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 pack | amod |
| 12 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hide | parataxis |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pack | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 streak | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 streak | det |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 streak | punct |
| 17 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 streak | amod |
| 18 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pack | parataxis |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 streak | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 drops | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 drops | punct |
| 22 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 drops | amod |
| 23 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pack | appos |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 midnight | case |
| 25 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drops | nmod |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 drops | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 streamer | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 streamer | det |
| 29 | streamer | streamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drops | conj |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 shows | nsubj |
| 31 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 streamer | acl:relcl |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 35 openings | advmod |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 openings | nmod:poss |
| 34 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 openings | amod |
| 35 | openings | opening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 shows | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 streamer | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 calling | cc |
| 38 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 streamer | conj |
| 39 | paid | pay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 chance | amod |
| 40 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 calling | obj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 surprise | det |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 surprise | punct |
| 43 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 calling | xcomp |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 surprise | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | Other traps | boxes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | present | a streamer | trap's best openings | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent opening=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | paid chance | a surprise | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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