Test 8 · ★★★ · Loot boxes and the surprise trap
Mrs Okafor: «100 people each open 100 boxes at one percent. Roughly how many get nothing rare?»
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mrs, many · What happens: open, get · To what, where: 100 boxes, one percent, nothing
This is test 8 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: Mrs Okafor: «100 people each open 100 boxes at one percent.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 open | nsubj |
| 2 | Okafor | Okafor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs | flat |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mrs | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 people | punct |
| 5 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 people | nummod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Mrs | conj |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 open | advmod |
| 8 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 boxes | nummod |
| 10 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 open | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 percent | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 percent | nummod |
| 13 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 open | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 open | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open in a quote | present | Mrs and 100 people | 100 boxes | one percent | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent box=Theme at percent=Location |
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: Roughly how many get nothing rare?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nothing | amod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | many | nothing | roughly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
None of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 None | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
All of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 All | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
About a third of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 third | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 third | det |
| 3 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 third | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Exactly one of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 one | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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