"I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, sentence 9

Some games are made so most people lose: coconut shies are hard on purpose, some claw machines can be set to grip weakly, and lotteries pay back less than people spend.

Who acts: most people, coconut shies, lotteries, people · What happens: make, lose, be, set, grip, pay back · To what, where: games, purpose, claw machines, less

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 people, coconut shies, lotteries, people), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 games	det
2	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 lose	advmod
6	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lose	nsubj
8	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	ccomp
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 hard	punct
10	coconut	coconut	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shies	compound
11	shies	shy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hard	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hard	cop
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lose	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 purpose	case
15	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hard	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 set	punct
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 machines	det
18	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 machines	compound
19	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 set	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 set	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 set	aux:pass
22	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 hard	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 grip	mark
24	grip	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 set	xcomp
25	weakly	weakly	ADV	_	24 grip	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pay	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pay	cc
28	lotteries	lottery	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pay	nsubj
29	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 pay	advmod
31	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 pay	obj
32	than	than	SCONJ	_	34 spend	mark
33	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 spend	nsubj
34	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 less	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		some games			tree rules
2	lose	present	most people				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	coconut shies		purpose	hard property	tree rules
4	set	can · passive		some claw machines			tree rules
5	grip	to-infinitive				weakly property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	pay back	present	lotteries	less			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Asset
7	spend	present	people				vn consume-66-1 «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:9.

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 ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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