"I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, sentence 15

A fair coin has a 1 in 2 chance of tails on every flip, whatever came before; over thousands of flips heads and tails roughly even out, but not because the coin "catches up".

Who acts: fair coin, whatever, coin, tails · What happens: have, come, catch up, chance · To what, where: 1 chance

This is a sentence of the lesson «"I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy» of the world 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 (fair coin, whatever, coin, tails), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coin	det
2	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coin	amod
3	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chance	det
6	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 chance	nummod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 2	case
8	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 1	nmod
9	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 tails	case
11	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chance	nmod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 flip	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 flip	det
14	flip	flip	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tails	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
16	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 flip	acl:relcl
18	before	before	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 heads	punct
20	over	over	ADP	_	24 heads	case
21	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 heads	compound
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 flips	case
23	flips	flip	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 thousands	nmod
24	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tails	cc
26	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 heads	conj
27	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	29 out	advmod
28	even	even	ADV	_	29 out	advmod
29	out	out	ADP	_	24 heads	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 catches	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 catches	cc
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 coin	advmod
33	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	37 catches	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 coin	det
35	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 catches	nsubj
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 catches	punct
37	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 catches	compound:prt
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 catches	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a fair coin	a 1 chance of tails on every flip		tree rules
2	come	past	whatever		before property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch up in a quote	present	the coin			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	chance		tails on every flip			nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent

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:world:171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy.lesson:15.

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): R6-punct-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.

See the release 0.4.

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