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title: Each pack or box has the same chance; there is no "lucky third pack". — Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost · tree and pragmatics
description: Each pack or box has the same chance; there is no "lucky third pack". Who acts: pack, lucky third pack. A sentence of the lesson «Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost, sentence 16

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Each pack or box has the same chance; there is no "lucky third pack".

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**Who acts:** pack, lucky third pack · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** same chance

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost» of the world 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 (pack, lucky third pack), 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:16
# text = Each pack or box has the same chance; there is no "lucky third pack".
# 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): no change
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
14	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	pack	pack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | each pack or box | the same chance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
| 2 | **be** | present | no lucky third pack |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost.lesson:16`.

**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): no change. **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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