--- title: An early lucky win can make people keep paying for a long time, hopi… — Loot boxes and the surprise trap · tree and pragmatics description: An early lucky win can make people keep paying for a long time, hoping it will happen again. Who acts: early lucky win, people, it. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap/32/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Loot boxes and the surprise trap](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap/) / 32 # Loot boxes and the surprise trap, sentence 32 An early lucky win can make people keep paying for a long time, hoping it will happen again. **Who acts:** early lucky win, people, it · **What happens:** make, keep, pay, hope, happen · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (early lucky win, people, it), 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:32 # text = An early lucky win can make people keep paying for a long time, hoping it will happen 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): no change 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 win win NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 9 paying pay VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 19 again again ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | can | a early lucky win | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | present | people | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pay** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | time | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hope** | gerund | a early lucky win *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **happen** | future | it | | | | again | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:32`. **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): no change. **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, 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap/31/) - next →: [Loot boxes and the surprise trap, 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap/33/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap/)