"I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, sentence 21

Fairground games and many claw machines are made so that most players lose; claw machines can be set by the owner to grip weakly most of the time.

Who acts: most players, owner · What happens: make, lose, set, grip · To what, where: Fairground games, claw machines, most

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 (most players, owner), 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	Fairground	fairground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 games	compound
2	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 machines	cc
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 machines	amod
5	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 machines	compound
6	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 games	conj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 made	aux:pass
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 lose	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 lose	mark
11	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 players	amod
12	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lose	nsubj
13	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 made	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 lose	punct
15	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 machines	compound
16	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 set	nsubj:pass
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 set	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 set	aux:pass
19	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 made	parataxis
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 owner	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 owner	det
22	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 set	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 grip	mark
24	grip	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 set	advcl
25	weakly	weakly	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 grip	advmod
26	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 grip	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 time	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 most	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Fairground games and many claw machines		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	lose	present	most players			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	set	can · passive	the owner	claw machines		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient subject=Result
4	grip	to-infinitive	the owner not said here	most of the time	weakly property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:21.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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