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title: Each loot box is a new try; the game does not «owe» you a win becaus… — Loot boxes and the surprise trap · tree and pragmatics
description: Each loot box is a new try; the game does not «owe» you a win because you lost before. Who acts: loot box, game, 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Loot boxes and the surprise trap, sentence 28

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Each loot box is a new try; the game does not «owe» you a win because you lost before.

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**Who acts:** loot box, game, you · **What happens:** be, not owe, lose · **To what, where:** new try, win, you · **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 (loot box, game, 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:28
# text = Each loot box is a new try; the game does not «owe» you a win because you lost before.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	loot	loot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	try	try	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	owe	owe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	win	win	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
22	before	before	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | each loot box | a new try |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **owe** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the game | a win | you |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal win=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | past | you |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: 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:28`.

**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): R8-pos-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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