Loot boxes and the surprise trap, sentence 1

It had a one-in-a-hundred chance of dropping from a loot box, a box you pay for without knowing what is inside.

Who acts: helmet, one hundred chance, you · What happens: have, drop, pay for, know, be · To what, where: one hundred chance, loot box, box · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Loot boxes and the surprise trap» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (helmet, one hundred chance, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 chance	det
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 chance	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 chance	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	11 chance	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 in	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hundred	det
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 hundred	punct
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 chance	nummod
11	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	13 dropping	mark
13	dropping	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 chance	acl
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 box	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 box	det
16	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 box	compound
17	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dropping	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 box	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 box	det
20	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 box	appos
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 pay	nsubj
22	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 box	acl:relcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	22 pay	compound:prt
24	without	without	SCONJ	_	25 knowing	mark
25	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 pay	advcl
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 inside	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 inside	cop
28	inside	inside	ADV	_	25 knowing	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	helmet	a one hundred chance			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
2	drop	gerund	a one hundred chance not said here		a loot box		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from box=Trajectory
3	pay for	present	you	a box not said here			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Asset
4	know	gerund	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present				inside property	tree rules

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap.lesson:1.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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