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title: "Rare skin: 1% chance" means 1 in 100: on average you would need abo… — Loot boxes and "free" skins · tree and pragmatics
description: "Rare skin: 1% chance" means 1 in 100: on average you would need about 100 tries, which at £1 each is about £100, and you could be unlucky for much longer. Who acts: Rare skin, you. A sentence of the lesson «Loot boxes and "free" skins» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Loot boxes and "free" skins, sentence 2

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"Rare skin: 1% chance" means 1 in 100: on average you would need about 100 tries, which at £1 each is about £100, and you could be unlucky for much longer.

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**Who acts:** Rare skin, you · **What happens:** mean, need, be · **To what, where:** 1, 100 tries, average

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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 (Rare skin, 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:2
# text = "Rare skin: 1% chance" means 1 in 100: on average you would need about 100 tries, which at £1 each is about £100, and you could be unlucky for much longer.
# 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 ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
2	Rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	%	%	SYM	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	average	average	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	tries	try	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	£	£	SYM	$	_	18	obl	_	_
26	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	about	about	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
30	£	£	SYM	$	_	25	conj	_	_
31	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
37	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	much	much	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Rare skin | 1 |  |  |  | in 100 | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot 1=Theme in 100=Attribute |
| 2 | **need** | would | you | 100 tries |  | average |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot try=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | could | you |  |  |  |  | long, unlucky *property* | tree rules |

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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:money:017-loot-boxes-and-free-skins.lesson:2`.

**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 ×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/).

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