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description: Noah's mate: "The guy opened 1000 packs and posted the best 50. You saw the highlights, not the whole film." What trap is this? Test 3 · ★ 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 o
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# Test 3 · ★ · Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost

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Noah's mate: "The guy opened 1000 packs and posted the best 50. You saw the highlights, not the whole film." What trap is this?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, You · **What happens:** open, post, see, be · **To what, where:** 1000 packs, best, highlights, this

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Noah's mate: "The guy opened 1000 packs and posted the best 50.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:t3:1
# text = Noah's mate: "The guy opened 1000 packs and posted the best 50.
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	1000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	packs	pack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	posted	post	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	obj	_	_
15	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** *in a quote* | past | Noah's mate | 1000 packs |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pack=Theme |
| 2 | **post** *in a quote* | past | Noah's mate *not said here* | the best |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=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:* You saw the highlights, not the whole film."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:t3:2
# text = You saw the highlights, not the whole film."
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	highlights	highlight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | You | the highlights |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer highlight=Stimulus |

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*Sentence 3:* What trap is this?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:t3:3
# text = What trap is this?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Spending more because you spent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:t3:o1:1
# text = Spending more because you spent
1	Spending	spend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spend** | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Only seeing the winners

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:t3:o2:1
# text = Only seeing the winners
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	winners	winner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  | the winners |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer winner=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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A trick question

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:t3:o3:1
# text = A trick question
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Moving the goalposts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost:t3:o4:1
# text = Moving the goalposts
1	Moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	goalposts	goalpost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | gerund |  | the goalposts |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goalpost=Theme |

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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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