--- title: Then she showed them: each box is a fresh try that does not remember… — Loot boxes and the surprise trap · tree and pragmatics description: Then she showed them: each box is a fresh try that does not remember the last one, so even after a hundred boxes, about one person in three still has not won. Who acts: chance, box, fresh try, one person. 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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 (chance, box, fresh try, one person), 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:16 # text = Then she showed them: each box is a fresh try that does not remember the last one, so even after a hundred boxes, about one person in three still has not won. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Then then ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 6 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 try try NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 13 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 20 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 21 even even ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 22 after after ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nmod _ _ 32 still still ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 33 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 won win VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 parataxis _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | past | chance | | maths *= math* | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** | present | each box | a fresh try | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **remember** | present · do-support | a fresh try | the last one | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 4 | **not** **win** | present · perfect | one person in three | | | | after a hundred boxes; still | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap.lesson:16`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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: [Loot boxes and the surprise trap, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap/14/) - next →: [Loot boxes and the surprise trap, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap/)