Test 1 · ★★ · Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true

Why do games make opening loot boxes so flashy and exciting?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: games · What happens: make, open · To what, where: opening loot boxes

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 281 «Advert tricks and offers that are too good to be true» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 make	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 boxes	amod
6	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boxes	compound
7	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 flashy	advmod
9	flashy	flashy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 make	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 exciting	cc
11	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flashy	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · do-support	games	opening loot boxes					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset box=Product
2	open	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

Because the game is free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 free	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 free	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 free	cop
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the game					free property	tree rules

Option 2

So that players can learn the names of all the bright colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 learn	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 learn	mark
3	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learn	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 learn	aux
5	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 names	det
7	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 learn	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 colours	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 colours	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 colours	det
11	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 colours	amod
12	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 names	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	can	players	the names of all bright colours					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	name			all bright colours					nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

So that players keep spending more money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 keep	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 keep	mark
3	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	spending	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 money	amod
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spending	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	players						tree rules
2	spend	gerund	players not said here	more money					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset

Option 4

Because the prizes are always rare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 rare	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prizes	det
3	prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rare	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rare	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 rare	advmod
6	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the prizes					always, rare property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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