--- title: A 1% chance means 1 in 100; on average it takes about 100 tries, but… — Loot boxes and "free" skins · tree and pragmatics description: A 1% chance means 1 in 100; on average it takes about 100 tries, but it can take far more. Who acts: % chance, it. 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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Loot boxes and "free" skins, sentence 9 A 1% chance means 1 in 100; on average it takes about 100 tries, but it can take far more. **Who acts:** % chance, it · **What happens:** mean, take · **To what, where:** 1, 100 tries, average, more 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 (% chance, it), 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:9 # text = A 1% chance means 1 in 100; on average it takes about 100 tries, but it can take far more. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 % % SYM NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 average average NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 tries try NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 22 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 23 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a % chance | 1 | | | | in 100 | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot 1=Theme in 100=Attribute | | 2 | **take** | present | it | 100 tries | | average | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent try=Theme on average=Destination | | 3 | **take** | can | it | more | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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:9`. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/8/) - next →: [Loot boxes and "free" skins, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/17-loot-boxes-and-free-skins/)