Test 3 · ★★ · Loot boxes and "free" skins
Jake: "rubbish, one more go." He's spent £12 on 6 boxes. What's the trap?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trap · What happens: spend, be · To what, where: Jake, 6 boxes
This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 17 «Loot boxes and "free" skins» of the money 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: Jake: "rubbish, one more go."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 rubbish | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rubbish | punct |
| 4 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jake | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 go | nummod |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 go | amod |
| 8 | go | go | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rubbish | appos |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: He's spent £12 on 6 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 | 3 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spent | aux:pass |
| 3 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 spent | obj |
| 5 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 £ | nummod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 boxes | case |
| 7 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 boxes | nummod |
| 8 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spent | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spent | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | present · passive | Jake | 6 boxes | tree rules |
Sentence 3: What's the trap?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trap | det |
| 4 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the trap | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
The hope of the next box keeps him paying
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hope | det |
| 2 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 box | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 box | det |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 box | amod |
| 6 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hope | nmod |
| 7 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 keeps | obj |
| 9 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 keeps | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | the hope of the next box | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay | gerund | him = he not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hope | the next box | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 2
The next box is guaranteed to be a rare one, so he keeps going
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 box | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 box | amod |
| 3 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guaranteed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 guaranteed | aux:pass |
| 5 | guaranteed | guarantee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 one | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 one | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guaranteed | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 keeps | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 keeps | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 keeps | nsubj |
| 14 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 guaranteed | parataxis |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 keeps | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guarantee | present · passive | the next box | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a rare one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | keep | present | he | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | gerund | he not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
He gets his money back after 10
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 | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 money | nmod:poss |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 gets | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 10 | case |
| 7 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 gets | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | present | He | his money | after 10 | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |
Option 4
Each box gets cheaper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 box | det |
| 2 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cheaper | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 gets | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | each box | cheap property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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