--- title: Determine the term properly applied to continued expenditure motivat… — Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost · tree and pragmatics description: Determine the term properly applied to continued expenditure motivated by the sum already expended. Exam question 2 of lesson 172 «Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost Determine the term properly applied to continued expenditure motivated by the sum already expended. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, sum · **What happens:** determine, apply, continue, motivate, expend · **To what, where:** term, continued expenditure This is exam question 2 of lesson 172 «Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:e2:1 # text = Determine the term properly applied to continued expenditure motivated by the sum already expended. 1 Determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 properly properly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 applied apply VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 continued continue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 expenditure expenditure NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 motivated motivate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 already already ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 expended expend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the term | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Topic | | 2 | **apply** | participle | | the term *not said here* | | | | to continued expenditure; properly *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **continue** | participle | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **motivate** | participle | | continued expenditure *not said here* | | | | by the sum | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **expend** | past | the sum *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Survivorship bias ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:e2:o1:1 # text = Survivorship bias 1 Survivorship survivorship NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 bias bias NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The hot-hand fallacy ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:e2:o2:1 # text = The hot-hand fallacy 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 fallacy fallacy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Appeal to authority ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:e2:o3:1 # text = Appeal to authority 1 Appeal appeal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 authority authority NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} The sunk cost fallacy ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:e2:o4:1 # text = The sunk cost fallacy 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 sunk sunk ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 cost cost NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 fallacy fallacy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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