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title: Lights, shaking and near-misses make opening a box feel exciting, so… — Loot boxes and the surprise trap · tree and pragmatics
description: Lights, shaking and near-misses make opening a box feel exciting, so you want to try again. Who acts: Lights, opening, 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 31

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Lights, shaking and near-misses make opening a box feel exciting, so you want to try again.

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**Who acts:** Lights, opening, you · **What happens:** shake, make, open, feel, want, try · **To what, where:** box

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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 (Lights, opening, 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:31
# text = Lights, shaking and near-misses make opening a box feel exciting, so you want to try again.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	near	near	ADJ	JJ	_	7	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
7	misses	miss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	exciting	exciting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | gerund | Lights *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | Lights |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **open** | gerund |  | a box |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | infinitive | opening |  |  |  |  | exciting *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **want** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **try** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:31`.

**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): 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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