--- title: Words people use: "drops" are the items a game gives you, "a skin" i… — Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost · tree and pragmatics description: Words people use: "drops" are the items a game gives you, "a skin" is a new look for a character, "quid" means pounds (UK money), "galaxy brain" is sarcastic for a silly idea, "a vibe" is a feeling, and "bestie" means best friend. Who acts: people, drops, game, skin. 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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 (people, drops, game, skin), 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:23 # text = Words people use: "drops" are the items a game gives you, "a skin" is a new look for a character, "quid" means pounds (UK money), "galaxy brain" is sarcastic for a silly idea, "a vibe" is a feeling, and "bestie" means best friend. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 items item NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 quid quid NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:appos 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 32 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 34 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 39 galaxy galaxy NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 sarcastic sarcastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 44 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 49 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=43:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 vibe vibe NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ _ 52 " " PUNCT '' _ 51 punct _ _ 53 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 cop _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 ccomp _ _ 56 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 58 " " PUNCT `` _ 59 punct _ _ 59 bestie bestie NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nsubj _ _ 60 " " PUNCT '' _ 59 punct _ _ 61 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 62 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 63 amod _ _ 63 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obj _ _ 64 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | people | Words | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | drops | the items | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **give** | present | a game | the items *not said here* | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | a skin | a new look | | | | for a character | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | a new look | pounds | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Topic | | 6 | **is** | present | galaxy brain | | | | | for a silly idea; sarcastic *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** | present | a vibe | a feeling | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **mean** | present | bestie | best friend | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic | 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:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost.lesson:23`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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, streaks and the sunk cost, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost/22/) - next →: ["The game is rigged because I lost", 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost/)