--- title: A 1 in 100 chance per box means each box has a small chance; it does… — Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost · tree and pragmatics description: A 1 in 100 chance per box means each box has a small chance; it does not promise one prize in every 100 boxes. Who acts: 1 chance, box, mickey. 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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 (1 chance, box, mickey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost.lesson:12 # text = A 1 in 100 chance per box means each box has a small chance; it does not promise one prize in every 100 boxes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 per per ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 promise promise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 prize prize NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 24 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 26 . . 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 | **mean** | present | a 1 chance per box | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | present | each box | a small chance | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | | 3 | **not** **promise** *speech: promise* | present · do-support | mickey | one prize | | every 100 boxes | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prize=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:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost.lesson:12`. **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/). - ← previous: [Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost/11/) - next →: [Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost/)