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Test 3 · ★ · Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost

Noah's mate: "The guy opened 1000 packs and posted the best 50. You saw the highlights, not the whole film." What trap is this?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, You · What happens: open, post, see, be · To what, where: 1000 packs, best, highlights, this

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 172 «Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost» of the world 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: Noah's mate: "The guy opened 1000 packs and posted the best 50.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Noah	case
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 opened	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guy	det
7	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opened	nsubj
8	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	1000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 packs	nummod
10	packs	pack	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 opened	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 posted	cc
12	posted	post	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 opened	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 best	det
14	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 posted	obj
15	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 best	nummod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 opened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open in a quote	past	Noah's mate	1000 packs					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pack=Theme
2	post in a quote	past	Noah's mate not said here	the best					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Theme

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: You saw the highlights, not the whole film."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 highlights	det
4	highlights	highlight	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 film	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 film	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 film	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 film	amod
9	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	parataxis
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 film	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 film	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	You	the highlights					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer highlight=Stimulus

Sentence 3: What trap is this?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 trap	det
2	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 this	cop
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 trap	nmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 trap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		this					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Spending more because you spent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spending	spend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Spending	advmod
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 spent	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 spent	nsubj
5	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Spending	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	gerund							vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	spend	past	you						vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Only seeing the winners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 seeing	advmod
2	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 winners	det
4	winners	winner	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 seeing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund		the winners					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer winner=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A trick question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 question	det
2	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 question	compound
3	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Moving the goalposts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goalposts	det
3	goalposts	goalpost	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Moving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund		the goalposts					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goalpost=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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