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title: Loot boxes work like gambling, and some children have spent hundreds… — Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be… · tree and pragmatics
description: Loot boxes work like gambling, and some children have spent hundreds without their parents knowing. Who acts: Loot boxes, children. A sentence of the lesson «Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true, sentence 29

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Loot boxes work like gambling, and some children have spent hundreds without their parents knowing.

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**Who acts:** Loot boxes, children · **What happens:** work, spend, know · **To what, where:** hundreds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true» of the everyday 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 (Loot boxes, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers.lesson:29
# text = Loot boxes work like gambling, and some children have spent hundreds without their parents knowing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers.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): no change
1	Loot	loot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gambling	gambling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | Loot boxes |  |  |  |  | like gambling | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spend** | present · perfect | some children | hundreds |  |  |  | without children's parents | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Asset |
| 3 | **know** | gerund | some children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:everyday:281-advert-tricks-and-too-good-offers.lesson:29`.

**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): no change. **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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