"I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, sentence 5

Dice don't save up sixes, lottery balls don't remember your numbers, scratch cards don't fill up a winning bar, and the weather doesn't take turns.

Who acts: Dice, lottery balls, scratch cards, weather · What happens: not save up, not remember, not fill up, not take · To what, where: sixes, numbers, winning bar, turns

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 (Dice, lottery balls, scratch cards, weather), 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	Dice	dice	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 save	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 save	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 save	advmod
4	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 save	compound:prt
6	sixes	six	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 save	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 remember	punct
8	lottery	lottery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 balls	compound
9	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 remember	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 remember	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 remember	advmod
12	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 save	parataxis
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 numbers	nmod:poss
14	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 remember	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fill	punct
16	scratch	scratch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cards	compound
17	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fill	nsubj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fill	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 fill	advmod
20	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 remember	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 fill	compound:prt
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bar	det
23	winning	winning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bar	compound
24	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fill	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 take	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 take	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 weather	det
28	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	nsubj
29	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 take	aux
30	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 take	advmod
31	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 save	conj
32	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 take	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 save	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not save up	present · do-support	Dice	sixes	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=Theme
2	not remember	present · do-support	lottery balls	your numbers	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme
3	not fill up	present · do-support	scratch cards	a winning bar	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bar=Patient
4	not take	present · do-support	the weather	turns	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme

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:5.

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): no change. 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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