--- title: A loot box is like gambling: you pay without knowing what you will g… — Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusi… · tree and pragmatics description: A loot box is like gambling: you pay without knowing what you will get. Who acts: loot box, you. A sentence of the lesson «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/) / 18 # Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 18 A loot box is like gambling: you pay without knowing what you will get. **Who acts:** loot box, you · **What happens:** be, pay, know, get · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» 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 box, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.lesson:18 # text = A loot box is like gambling: you pay without knowing what you will get. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 loot loot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 gambling gamble NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 10 without without SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 obj _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a loot box | | | | | like gambling | tree rules | | 2 | **pay** | present | you | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **know** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **get** | future | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | 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:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.lesson:18`. **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 ×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: [Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/17/) - next →: [Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/)