Test 1 · ★★★ · Loot boxes and the surprise trap

«I've lost like 30 times, next one's GOTTA be it». right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: lose, be · To what, where: it

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 413 «Loot boxes and the surprise trap» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
3	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 times	case
6	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 GOTTA	punct
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 GOTTA	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 one	case
12	GOTTA	GOTTA	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 times	appos
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 it	cop
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 GOTTA	appos
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 GOTTA	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
17	right	right	INTJ	_	4 lost	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	present · perfect	I				time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	infinitive		it					tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, the game owes you a win by now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 owes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 game	det
4	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 owes	nsubj
5	owes	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 owes	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 win	det
8	win	win	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 owes	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 now	case
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 owes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	owe	present	the game	a win	you				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal win=Theme

Option 2

Yes, after 30 the chance doubles for every box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 doubles	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 doubles	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 30	case
4	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 doubles	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chance	det
6	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doubles	nsubj
7	doubles	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 box	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 box	det
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doubles	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	double	present	the chance				after 30	for every box	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, each box is a new try with the same chance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 try	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 box	det
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 try	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 try	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 try	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 try	amod
8	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 chance	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chance	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chance	amod
12	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 try	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	each box	a new try				with the same chance	tree rules

Option 4

Only if the box glows gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 glows	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 glows	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 box	det
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glows	nsubj
5	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	the box	gold					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme

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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