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title: It had a one-in-a-hundred chance of dropping from a loot box, a box… — Loot boxes and the surprise trap · tree and pragmatics
description: It had a one-in-a-hundred chance of dropping from a loot box, a box you pay for without knowing what is inside. Who acts: helmet, one hundred chance, you. A sentence of the lesson «Loot boxes and the surprise trap» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Loot boxes and the surprise trap, sentence 1

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It had a one-in-a-hundred chance of dropping from a loot box, a box you pay for without knowing what is inside.

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**Who acts:** helmet, one hundred chance, you · **What happens:** have, drop, pay for, know, be · **To what, where:** one hundred chance, loot box, box · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Loot boxes and the surprise trap» 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 (helmet, one hundred chance, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap.lesson:1
# text = It had a one-in-a-hundred chance of dropping from a loot box, a box you pay for without knowing what is inside.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
13	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	loot	loot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pay	pay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	25	ccomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | helmet | a one hundred chance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
| 2 | **drop** | gerund | a one hundred chance *not said here* |  |  | a loot box |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from box=Trajectory |
| 3 | **pay for** | present | you | a box *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Asset |
| 4 | **know** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | tree rules |

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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:413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap.lesson:1`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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/).

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