--- title: A loot box is like gambling: you pay without knowing what you get, a… — Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adve… · tree and pragmatics description: A loot box is like gambling: you pay without knowing what you get, and games make it exciting so you spend more. Who acts: loot box, you, games. 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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, games), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:19 # text = A loot box is like gambling: you pay without knowing what you get, and games make it exciting so you spend more. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-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 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 gambling 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 _ _ 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 11 obj _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 exciting exciting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 spend spend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 obj _ _ 25 . . 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 NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 4 | **get** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **make** | present | games | box | | | | exciting *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 6 | **spend** | present | you | more | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset | 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:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:19`. **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. 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