Exam question 2 · Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost

Determine the term properly applied to continued expenditure motivated by the sum already expended.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sum · What happens: determine, apply, continue, motivate, expend · To what, where: term, continued expenditure

This is exam question 2 of lesson 172 «Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

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

Survivorship bias

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The hot-hand fallacy

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Appeal to authority

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The sunk cost fallacy

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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