Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★, sentence 17

A fair coin has a half chance of heads on every throw, even after 5 heads in a row; it has no memory.

Who acts: fair coin, coin, heads · What happens: have, chance · To what, where: half chance, memory

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: logic traps and if-then ★★★» 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 (fair coin, coin, heads), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coin	det
2	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coin	amod
3	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chance	det
6	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 chance	amod
7	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 heads	case
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chance	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 throw	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 throw	det
12	throw	throw	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heads	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heads	punct
14	even	even	ADV	_	17 heads	advmod
15	after	after	ADP	_	17 heads	case
16	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 heads	nummod
17	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heads	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 row	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 row	det
20	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heads	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 has	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 has	nsubj
23	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	parataxis
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 memory	det
25	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 has	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	a fair coin	a half chance of heads on every throw and 5 heads in a row	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
2	have	present	coin	no memory	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient
3	chance		heads on every throw and 5 heads in a row		nom chance «state intransitive»: of=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:193-olympiad-logic-traps-and-if-then.lesson:17.

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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