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title: A fair coin has a 1 in 2 chance on each flip, and 5 heads in a row h… — Gambling and honesty with change · tree and pragmatics
description: A fair coin has a 1 in 2 chance on each flip, and 5 heads in a row has a 1 in 32 chance; each flip is fresh, so a streak does not make the next result "due". Who acts: fair coin, 5 heads, flip, streak. A sentence of the lesson «Gambling and honesty with change» of the money course of Mova's primary 
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# Gambling and honesty with change, sentence 10

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A fair coin has a 1 in 2 chance on each flip, and 5 heads in a row has a 1 in 32 chance; each flip is fresh, so a streak does not make the next result "due".

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**Who acts:** fair coin, 5 heads, flip, streak · **What happens:** have, be, not make · **To what, where:** 1 chance, flip, next result

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Gambling and honesty with change» of the money 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, 5 heads, flip, streak), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:040-gambling-and-honesty-with-change.lesson:10
# text = A fair coin has a 1 in 2 chance on each flip, and 5 heads in a row has a 1 in 32 chance; each flip is fresh, so a streak does not make the next result "due".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 040-gambling-and-honesty-with-change.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	flip	flip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	32	32	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	flip	flip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	streak	streak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	parataxis	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	_
42	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:amod
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a fair coin | a 1 chance |  | each flip |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | 5 heads in a row | a 1 chance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | each flip |  |  |  |  | fresh *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | a streak | the next result |  |  |  | due *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material result=Product |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:money:040-gambling-and-honesty-with-change.lesson:10`.

**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. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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