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title: Her brother: "So I should just buy the third pack first? Galaxy brai… — Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost · tree and pragmatics
description: Her brother: "So I should just buy the third pack first? Galaxy brain." Why is that funny? Test 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 choice was righ
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# Test 2 · ★ · Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost

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Her brother: "So I should just buy the third pack first? Galaxy brain." Why is that funny?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** I, that · **What happens:** buy, be · **To what, where:** third pack

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 172 «Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost» of the world course of Mova's primary school. 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Her brother: "So I should just buy the third pack first?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:t2:1
# text = Her brother: "So I should just buy the third pack first?
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	So	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	appos	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** *in a quote* | should | I | the third pack |  |  |  | first *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=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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*Sentence 2:* Galaxy brain."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:t2:2
# text = Galaxy brain."
1	Galaxy	Galaxy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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*Sentence 3:* Why is that funny?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:t2:3
# text = Why is that funny?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | funny *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Third packs are really cheaper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:t2:o1:1
# text = Third packs are really cheaper
1	Third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	amod	_	_
2	packs	pack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Third packs |  |  |  |  | cheap *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The "third" pack is just whichever pack you open third

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:t2:o2:1
# text = The "third" pack is just whichever pack you open third
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	whichever	whichever	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	pack	pack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	third	third	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | whichever |  |  |  |  | pack *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | present | the third pack |  |  |  |  | third *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Galaxy packs are rarer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:t2:o3:1
# text = Galaxy packs are rarer
1	Galaxy	galaxy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	packs	pack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	rarer	rare	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Galaxy packs |  |  |  |  | rare *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He really thinks it would work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:t2:o4:1
# text = He really thinks it would work
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | would | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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