"I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, sentence 22
On average people get back less money from scratch cards and lotteries than they spend; that is how lotteries make money.
Who acts: people, that, lotteries · What happens: get back, spend, be, make · To what, where: less money, average, money
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 (people, that, lotteries), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 average | case |
| 2 | average | average | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 6 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 money | amod |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 cards | case |
| 9 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cards | compound |
| 10 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 money | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lotteries | cc |
| 12 | lotteries | lottery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cards | conj |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 spend | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spend | nsubj |
| 15 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 money | advcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 is | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | parataxis |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 make | advmod |
| 20 | lotteries | lottery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 make | nsubj |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 is | ccomp |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | present | people | less money | average | from scratch cards and lotteries | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme on average=Source | ||
| 2 | spend | present | people | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | present | lotteries | money | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product |
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:22.
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 ×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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