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Test 10 · "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy

His mum: "The clouds don't have a rota, love. Pack your raincoat." What does "the clouds don't have a rota" mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: clouds, you · What happens: not have, pack, mean · To what, where: rota, raincoat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 171 «"I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy» 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: His mum: "The clouds don't have a rota, love.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clouds	det
6	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 have	advmod
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 mum	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rota	det
11	rota	rota	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 love	punct
13	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rota	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mum	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have in a quote	present · do-support	the clouds	a rota and love					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rota=Patient

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: Pack your raincoat."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pack	pack	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 raincoat	nmod:poss
3	raincoat	raincoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pack	obj
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Pack	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Pack	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	imperative	you not said here	your raincoat					vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme raincoat=Destination

Sentence 3: What does "the clouds don't have a rota" mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 have	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clouds	det
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 have	advmod
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 mean	nsubj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rota	det
10	rota	rota	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 rota	punct
12	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have in a quote	present · do-support	the clouds	a rota					tree rules
2	mean	infinitive							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Weather doesn't take turns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 take	advmod
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	present · do-support	Weather	turns					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme

Option 2

Clouds follow a timetable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 follow	nsubj
2	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 timetable	det
4	timetable	timetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	Clouds	a timetable					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timetable=Theme

Option 3

Clouds come on Saturdays only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 Saturdays	case
4	Saturdays	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl
5	only	only	ADV	_	2 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Clouds				saturday		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It will be sunny next time

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	6 time	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 time	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 time	cop
4	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	future	It	sunny next time					tree rules

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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