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title: "That's impossible! 100 boxes should give me one!" But 1 in 100 is a… — Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost · tree and pragmatics
description: "That's impossible! 100 boxes should give me one!" But 1 in 100 is a chance, not a promise. Who acts: That, 100 boxes, 1. 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 3

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"That's impossible! 100 boxes should give me one!" But 1 in 100 is a chance, not a promise.

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**Who acts:** That, 100 boxes, 1 · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** one, me, 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 (That, 100 boxes, 1), 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:3
# text = "That's impossible! 100 boxes should give me one!" But 1 in 100 is a chance, not a promise.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
14	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | should | 100 boxes | one | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | 1 in 100 | a chance and a promise |  |  |  |  | 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:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost.lesson:3`.

**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): R6-punct-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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