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title: Our brains remember disappointments more than good luck; keeping a s… — Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost · tree and pragmatics
description: Our brains remember disappointments more than good luck; keeping a simple tally shows the real numbers. Who acts: brains, keeping. 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 clause
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# Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, sentence 20

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Our brains remember disappointments more than good luck; keeping a simple tally shows the real numbers.

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**Who acts:** brains, keeping · **What happens:** remember, keep, show · **To what, where:** disappointments, simple tally, real numbers · **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 (brains, keeping), 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:20
# text = Our brains remember disappointments more than good luck; keeping a simple tally shows the real numbers.
# 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): no change
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	disappointments	disappointment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
10	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tally	tally	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **remember** | present | Our brains | disappointments |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent disappointment=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund |  | a simple tally |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tally=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | present | keeping | the real numbers |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient |

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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:20`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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