--- title: Every time a box shook and glowed before opening, his heart jumped —… — Loot boxes and the surprise trap · tree and pragmatics description: Every time a box shook and glowed before opening, his heart jumped — and that jump, his dad said, is exactly what the box is built to sell. Who acts: box, heart, dad, jump. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (box, heart, dad, jump), 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:5 # text = Every time a box shook and glowed before opening, his heart jumped — and that jump, his dad said, is exactly what the box is built to sell. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 shook shook VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 glowed glow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 before before SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 9 opening open VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 — - PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 16 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 jump jump NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 13 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 | **shook** | past | a box | every time *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **glow** | past | a box *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **open** | gerund | a box *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **jump** | past | Kai's heart | | | | time | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Kai's dad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | that jump | | | | | exactly *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **build** | present · passive | | the box | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **sell** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | 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:5`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Loot boxes and the surprise trap, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap/4/) - next →: [Loot boxes and the surprise trap, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap/)