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Test 6 · ★★ · Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and to…

A boy in Texas spends all his birthday money on loot boxes hoping for a rare skin and gets none. Why does this happen to many players?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, loot boxes, this · What happens: spend, hope, get, happen · To what, where: birthday money, loot boxes, none

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 334 «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Texas spends all his birthday money on loot boxes hoping for a rare skin and gets none.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spends	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	spends	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 money	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 money	nmod:poss
8	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 money	compound
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spends	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 boxes	case
11	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boxes	compound
12	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spends	obl
13	hoping	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 boxes	acl
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 skin	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 skin	det
16	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 skin	amod
17	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hoping	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gets	cc
19	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spends	conj
20	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	19 gets	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spends	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	present	a boy in Texas	boy's birthday money				on loot boxes goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent money=Asset on box=Goal
2	hope	gerund	loot boxes not said here					for a rare skin	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for skin=Theme
3	get	present	a boy in Texas not said here	none					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer none=Stimulus

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.

Sentence 2: Why does this happen to many players?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 happen	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 happen	nsubj
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 players	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 players	amod
7	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happen	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present · do-support	this					to many players	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

He should simply have bought more boxes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bought	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bought	aux
3	simply	simply	ADV	_	5 bought	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 bought	aux
5	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 boxes	amod
7	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	should · perfect	He	more boxes				simply property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme

Option 2

He was very unlucky; loot boxes always pay off eventually

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 unlucky	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 unlucky	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 unlucky	advmod
4	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 pay	punct
6	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boxes	compound
7	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pay	nsubj
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 pay	advmod
9	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unlucky	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 pay	compound:prt
11	eventually	eventually	ADV	_	9 pay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					unlucky property	tree rules
2	pay off	present	loot boxes					always, eventually property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The game made a mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 game	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mistake	det
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the game	a mistake					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Loot boxes work like gambling, and the game makes them exciting to spend more

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boxes	compound
2	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 gambling	case
5	gambling	gambling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 makes	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 makes	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 game	det
9	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 makes	nsubj
10	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 work	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 makes	obj
12	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 makes	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 spend	mark
14	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 exciting	xcomp
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 spend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Loot boxes					like gambling	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	the game	boxes = box				exciting property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
3	spend	to-infinitive	boxes = box not said here	more					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset

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