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title: Siblings take the mickey out of the maths, not the gamer: "It's a 1… — Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost · tree and pragmatics
description: Siblings take the mickey out of the maths, not the gamer: "It's a 1 percent chance, not a 1 percent promise." Who acts: Siblings, mickey. A sentence of the lesson «Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, sentence 11

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Siblings take the mickey out of the maths, not the gamer: "It's a 1 percent chance, not a 1 percent promise."

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**Who acts:** Siblings, mickey · **What happens:** take, be · **To what, where:** mickey, maths, percent chance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Siblings, mickey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost.lesson:11
# text = Siblings take the mickey out of the maths, not the gamer: "It's a 1 percent chance, not a 1 percent promise."
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Siblings	sibling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mickey	mickey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	maths	math	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gamer	gamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
15	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nummod
19	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | Siblings | the mickey |  | the maths and the gamer |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | mickey | a percent chance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost.lesson:11`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

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