"I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, sentence 25
Words people use: "mate" and "bro" mean friend, "lowkey" means a bit, "Nostradamus" is a joke name for someone who thinks they can tell the future (after a famous fortune-teller from long ago), "a rota" is a list of whose turn it is, "best of loads" means lots of rounds, and "candyfloss" is cotton candy (US).
Who acts: people, mate, rota, list, candyfloss · What happens: use, mean, be, think, tell · To what, where: mate, friend, bit, joke name, future, list · Speech: someone speaks here
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, mate, rota, list), 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 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 64 best | parataxis |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Words | acl:relcl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 mate | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mate | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 use | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mate | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 means | cc |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bro | punct |
| 10 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mate | conj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 bro | punct |
| 12 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mate | acl |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mean | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mean | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 lowkey | punct |
| 16 | lowkey | lowkey | X | _ | 12 mean | flat |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 lowkey | punct |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bit | det |
| 20 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Nostradamus | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Nostradamus | punct |
| 23 | Nostradamus | Nostradamus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 bit | appos |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Nostradamus | punct |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 name | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 name | det |
| 27 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 name | compound |
| 28 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | obj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 someone | case |
| 30 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 name | nmod |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 thinks | nsubj |
| 32 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 someone | acl:relcl |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 tell | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 tell | aux |
| 35 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 thinks | ccomp |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 future | det |
| 37 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tell | obj |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 44 teller | punct |
| 39 | after | after | ADP | _ | 44 teller | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 teller | det |
| 41 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 teller | amod |
| 42 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 teller | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 fortune | punct |
| 44 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tell | obl |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 long | case |
| 46 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 tell | advmod |
| 47 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 46 long | advmod |
| 48 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 thinks | punct |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 rota | punct |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 rota | det |
| 52 | rota | rota | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 list | nsubj |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 rota | punct |
| 54 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 56 list | cop |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 list | det |
| 56 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 best | nsubj |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 turn | case |
| 58 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 59 turn | nmod:poss |
| 59 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 list | nmod |
| 60 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 59 turn | obj |
| 61 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 64 best | cop |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 is | punct |
| 63 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 64 best | punct |
| 64 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 65 | of | of | ADP | _ | 66 loads | case |
| 66 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 64 best | nmod |
| 67 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 64 best | punct |
| 68 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 64 best | acl:relcl |
| 69 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 68 means | obj |
| 70 | of | of | ADP | _ | 71 rounds | case |
| 71 | rounds | round | NOUN | Number=Plur | 69 lots | nmod |
| 72 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 79 candy | punct |
| 73 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 79 candy | cc |
| 74 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 75 candyfloss | punct |
| 75 | candyfloss | candyfloss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 79 candy | nsubj |
| 76 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 75 candyfloss | punct |
| 77 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 79 candy | cop |
| 78 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 79 candy | compound |
| 79 | candy | candy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 means | conj |
| 80 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 81 US | punct |
| 81 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 79 candy | appos |
| 82 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 81 US | punct |
| 83 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 64 best | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | people | mate and bro | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | mate and bro not said here | friend | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | a bit | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | a joke name | for someone | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | present | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | can | people | the future | after a famous fortune teller | long property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent future=Recipient | ||
| 7 | is a | present | a rota | a list | of a list's turn | tree rules | |||
| 8 | is in a quote | present | a list | of loads; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | mean | present | lots of rounds | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic | |||||
| 10 | is a | present | candyfloss | cotton candy | 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:world:171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy.lesson:25.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×4. 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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