--- title: Determine the term properly applied to attributing one's successes t… — "The game is rigged because I lost" · tree and pragmatics description: Determine the term properly applied to attributing one's successes to skill and one's failures to external causes. Exam question 3 of lesson 173 «"The game is rigged because I lost"» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost/e3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / ["The game is rigged because I lost"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · "The game is rigged because I lost" Determine the term properly applied to attributing one's successes to skill and one's failures to external causes. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, one · **What happens:** determine, apply, attribute, fail · **To what, where:** term, successes This is exam question 3 of lesson 173 «"The game is rigged because I lost"» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost:e3:1 # text = Determine the term properly applied to attributing one's successes to skill and one's failures to external causes. 1 Determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 properly properly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 applied apply VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 6 to to SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 attributing attribute VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 successes success NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 advcl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 failures failure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 external external ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 causes cause NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the term | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Topic | | 2 | **apply** | participle | | the term *not said here* | | | | properly *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **attribute** | gerund | | one's successes | | | | to external causes | tree rules | | 4 | **fail** | | one | | | | | | nom failure «act 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} A self-serving bias ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost:e3:o1:1 # text = A self-serving bias 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 serving serve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 5 bias bias NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **serve** | gerund | | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} The sunk cost fallacy ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost:e3:o2:1 # text = The sunk cost fallacy 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 sunk sunk ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 cost cost NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 fallacy fallacy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The gambler's fallacy ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost:e3:o3:1 # text = The gambler's fallacy 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 gambler gambler NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 fallacy fallacy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Circular reasoning ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:173-the-game-is-rigged-because-i-lost:e3:o4:1 # text = Circular reasoning 1 Circular circular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 reasoning reasoning NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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