--- title: "I can't stop now, I've already spent twenty quid." That is the sunk… — Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost · tree and pragmatics description: "I can't stop now, I've already spent twenty quid." That is the sunk cost trap: the money is gone whatever he does next. Who acts: game, That, money, Sam. 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That is the sunk cost trap: the money is gone whatever he does next. **Who acts:** game, That, money, Sam · **What happens:** not stop, spend, be, do · **To what, where:** twenty quid, sunk cost trap, whatever · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (game, That, money, Sam), 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:7 # text = "I can't stop now, I've already spent twenty quid." That is the sunk cost trap: the money is gone whatever he does next. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 now now ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 already already ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 12 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 quid quid NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 16 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 sunk sunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 cost cost NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:aux:pass 26 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 obj _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 30 next next ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **stop** *in a quote* | can | the game *= game* | | | | now | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **spend** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the game *= game* | twenty quid | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quid=Asset | | 3 | **is a** | present | That | the sunk cost trap | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | the money | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | present | Sam | whatever | | | | next *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality | 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:7`. **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, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost/6/) - next →: [Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost/)