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title: Videos show the exciting moments; seeing only the winners and not th… — Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost · tree and pragmatics
description: Videos show the exciting moments; seeing only the winners and not the losers is called survivorship bias. Who acts: Videos, seeing. 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 claus
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# Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, sentence 17

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Videos show the exciting moments; seeing only the winners and not the losers is called survivorship bias.

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**Who acts:** Videos, seeing · **What happens:** show, see, call · **To what, where:** winners, survivorship bias · **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 (Videos, seeing), 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:17
# text = Videos show the exciting moments; seeing only the winners and not the losers is called survivorship bias.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Videos	video	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	exciting	exciting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
7	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj:pass	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	winners	winner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	losers	loser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
17	survivorship	survivorship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	bias	bias	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Videos |  |  |  | moment |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | gerund |  | the winners and the losers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer winner=Stimulus |
| 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | seeing | survivorship bias |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |

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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:17`.

**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. **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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