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title: Videos of people opening many loot boxes are sometimes paid for or s… — Loot boxes and the surprise trap · tree and pragmatics
description: Videos of people opening many loot boxes are sometimes paid for or supplied by the game company. Who acts: people. 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 34

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Videos of people opening many loot boxes are sometimes paid for or supplied by the game company.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** open, pay, supply · **To what, where:** many loot boxes, Videos

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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 (people), 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:34
# text = Videos of people opening many loot boxes are sometimes paid for or supplied by the game company.
# 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	Videos	video	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	loot	loot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	supplied	supply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **open** | gerund | people *not said here* | many loot boxes |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | present · passive |  | Videos of people |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 3 | **supply** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the game company | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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:34`.

**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/).

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