"I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, sentence 8
Practice changes your chances; a losing streak does not.
Who acts: Practice, losing streak, your · What happens: change, not do, chance · To what, where: chances
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 (Practice, losing streak, your), 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 | Practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 changes | nsubj |
| 2 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 chances | nmod:poss |
| 4 | chances | chance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 changes | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 does | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 streak | det |
| 7 | losing | losing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 streak | compound |
| 8 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 does | nsubj |
| 9 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 changes | parataxis |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 does | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 changes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | Practice | your chances | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not do | present | a losing streak | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | chance | your | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=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:8.
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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