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title: Ollie is unlucky, not cheated, unless the game promised a guarantee. — Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost · tree and pragmatics
description: Ollie is unlucky, not cheated, unless the game promised a guarantee. Who acts: Ollie, game. 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 5

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Ollie is unlucky, not cheated, unless the game promised a guarantee.

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**Who acts:** Ollie, game · **What happens:** be, not cheat, promise · **To what, where:** guarantee

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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 (Ollie, game), 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:5
# text = Ollie is unlucky, not cheated, unless the game promised a guarantee.
# 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 ×1
1	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	cheated	cheat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	guarantee	guarantee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	.	.	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 | **is** | present | Ollie |  |  |  |  | unlucky *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **cheat** | participle | Ollie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the game | a guarantee |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent guarantee=Theme |

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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:5`.

**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 ×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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