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title: Theo had the opposite problem: he got a rare item in his very first… — Loot boxes and the surprise trap · tree and pragmatics
description: Theo had the opposite problem: he got a rare item in his very first box and decided he was lucky. Who acts: Theo. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Loot boxes and the surprise trap, sentence 10

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Theo had the opposite problem: he got a rare item in his very first box and decided he was lucky.

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**Who acts:** Theo · **What happens:** have, get, decide, be · **To what, where:** opposite problem, rare item, first 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 (Theo), 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:10
# text = Theo had the opposite problem: he got a rare item in his very first box and decided he was lucky.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	item	item	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
18	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
22	.	.	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 | Theo | the opposite problem |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | past | Theo | a rare item |  | Theo's first box |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer item=Stimulus |
| 3 | **decide** | past | Theo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | Theo |  |  |  |  | lucky *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:10`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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