Test 9 · ★★ · Loot boxes and "free" skins

What would happen if a game had to show the real odds on every box?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: game · What happens: happen, have, show · To what, where: real odds, box

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 game	det
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 show	mark
9	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 odds	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 odds	amod
12	odds	odd	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 show	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 box	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 box	det
15	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 odds	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a game			tree rules
3	show	to-infinitive	a game not said here	the real odds	every box	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent odd=Recipient

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

Rare items would become common

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 items	amod
2	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Rare items					common property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Boxes would become free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Boxes					free property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

Players could see how unlikely rare items are and choose better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 unlikely	advmod
5	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 see	ccomp
6	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 items	amod
7	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 unlikely	obl
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unlikely	cop
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 choose	cc
10	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	conj
11	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 choose	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	see	could	Players		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present		rare items obl; unlikely property	tree rules
3	choose	present	Players not said here	well property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nothing, odds don't matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 odds	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	odds	odd	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 matter	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 matter	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 matter	advmod
6	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	Nothing odds						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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