--- title: Buying the exact item you want is certain; paying for a chance is not. — Loot boxes and "free" skins · tree and pragmatics description: Buying the exact item you want is certain; paying for a chance is not. Who acts: you, Buying. A sentence of the lesson «Loot boxes and "free" skins» of the money 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/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/13/) [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/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Loot boxes and "free" skins](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/) / 13 # Loot boxes and "free" skins, sentence 13 Buying the exact item you want is certain; paying for a chance is not. **Who acts:** you, Buying · **What happens:** buy, want, be, pay · **To what, where:** exact item This is a sentence of the lesson «Loot boxes and "free" skins» of the money 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 (you, Buying), 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:13 # text = Buying the exact item you want is certain; paying for a chance is not. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Buying buy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 item item NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 csubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advcl 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advcl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **buy** | gerund | | the exact item | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent item=Theme | | 2 | **want** | present | you | the exact item *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot item=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | Buying | | | | | certain *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **pay** | gerund | | | | | | for a chance | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for chance=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:money:017-loot-boxes-and-free-skins.lesson:13`. **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): R5-strong ×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 "free" skins, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/12/) - next →: [Loot boxes and "free" skins, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/)