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title: A one percent chance means about one in a hundred, on average, not o… — Loot boxes and the surprise trap · tree and pragmatics
description: A one percent chance means about one in a hundred, on average, not one in every hundred tries for sure. Who acts: percent chance. 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 27

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A one percent chance means about one in a hundred, on average, not one in every hundred tries for sure.

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**Who acts:** percent chance · **What happens:** mean · **To what, where:** one, average

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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 (percent chance), 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:27
# text = A one percent chance means about one in a hundred, on average, not one in every hundred tries for sure.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	percent	percent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det
19	hundred	hundred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tries	try	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | a percent chance | one in a hundred  one in hundred tries |  | average |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:27`.

**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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