--- title: Jake pays £2 for a box, gets a sword he already has, says "one more… — Loot boxes and "free" skins · tree and pragmatics description: Jake pays £2 for a box, gets a sword he already has, says "one more go" and opens 5 more: 6 boxes cost him £12 for one rare item, because the hope of the next box keeps you buying. Who acts: Jake, 6 boxes, hope, you. 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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 (Jake, 6 boxes, hope, you), 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:1 # text = Jake pays £2 for a box, gets a sword he already has, says "one more go" and opens 5 more: 6 boxes cost him £12 for one rare item, because the hope of the next box keeps you buying. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 £ £ SYM $ _ 4 compound _ _ 4 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 already already ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 19 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ _ 20 go go NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 obj _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 27 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 cost cost VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obj 31 £ £ SYM $ _ 29 obj _ _ 32 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 35 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 item item NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 38 because because SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 45 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 46 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 buying buy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 45 xcomp _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pay** | present | Jake | £ 2 | | | | for a box | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent 2=Asset for box=Theme | | 2 | **get** | present | Jake *not said here* | a sword | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus | | 3 | **have** | present | Jake | a sword *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Jake *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **open** | present | Jake *not said here* | 5 more | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme | | 6 | **cost** | infinitive | 6 boxes | | Jake | | | for one rare item | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary £=Value | | 7 | **keep** | present | the hope of the next box | you | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **buy** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **hope** | | the next box | | | | | | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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:money:017-loot-boxes-and-free-skins.lesson:1`. **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 ×2. **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 "free" skins, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/0/) - next →: [Loot boxes and "free" skins, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/)