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title: The only real question is whether the next box is worth it. — Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost · tree and pragmatics
description: The only real question is whether the next box is worth it. Who acts: only real question. 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 8

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The only real question is whether the next box is worth it.

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**Who acts:** only real question · **What happens:** be

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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 (only real question), 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:8
# text = The only real question is whether the next box is worth it.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:outer	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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** | present | the only real question |  |  |  |  | worth *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:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost.lesson:8`.

**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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