--- title: Leo thought that was a bit much, so his dad explained: a fruit machi… — Loot boxes and the surprise trap · tree and pragmatics description: Leo thought that was a bit much, so his dad explained: a fruit machine takes your money, spins, flashes lights, and now and then pays out, so you keep feeding it. Who acts: Leo, that, dad, fruit machine. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Leo, that, dad, fruit machine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap.lesson:7 # text = Leo thought that was a bit much, so his dad explained: a fruit machine takes your money, spins, flashes lights, and now and then pays out, so you keep feeding it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Leo Leo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 explained explain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 spins spin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 flashes flash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 30 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 36 feeding feed VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 xcomp _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - hedged: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Leo | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | that | | | | | a bit *obl:unmarked*; much *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | Leo's dad | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **take** | present | a fruit machine | your money | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | | 5 | **spin** | present | a fruit machine *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **flash** | present | a fruit machine *not said here* | lights | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=Theme | | 7 | **pay out** | present | | | | | now; then | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **keep** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **feed** | gerund | you *not said here* | machine | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Loot boxes and the surprise trap, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap/6/) - next →: [Loot boxes and the surprise trap, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap/)