--- title: A loot box is a paid mystery prize in a game: you pay, it opens, and… — Loot boxes and "free" skins · tree and pragmatics description: A loot box is a paid mystery prize in a game: you pay, it opens, and you only find out afterwards what you got, which is usually something common. Who acts: loot box, you, box, paid mystery prize. 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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 (loot box, you, box, paid mystery prize), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:017-loot-boxes-and-free-skins.lesson:0 # text = A loot box is a paid mystery prize in a game: you pay, it opens, and you only find out afterwards what you got, which is usually something common. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 017-loot-boxes-and-free-skins.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 loot loot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 7 mystery mystery NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 prize prize NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 out out ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 25 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 obj _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 usually usually ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 conj _ _ 33 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | participle | | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | a loot box | a paid mystery prize | | a game | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pay** | present | you | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **open** | present | box | a paid mystery prize *not said here* | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prize=Theme | | 5 | **find out** | present | you | | | | | afterwards *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 6 | **get** | past | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is a** | present | a paid mystery prize | something | | | | usually *property* | tree rules | 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:money:017-loot-boxes-and-free-skins.lesson:0`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [In-game currency: coins and gems are r…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/16-in-game-currency-coins-and-gems-are-real-money/14/) - next →: [Loot boxes and "free" skins, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/)