--- title: A fair coin has a 1 in 2 chance of tails on every flip, whatever cam… — "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy · tree and pragmatics description: A fair coin has a 1 in 2 chance of tails on every flip, whatever came before; over thousands of flips heads and tails roughly even out, but not because the coin "catches up". Who acts: fair coin, whatever, coin, tails. 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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, whatever, coin, tails), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy.lesson:15 # text = A fair coin has a 1 in 2 chance of tails on every flip, whatever came before; over thousands of flips heads and tails roughly even out, but not because the coin "catches up". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy.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): R6-punct-agree ×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 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 flip flip NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 before before ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 over over ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 compound _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 flips flip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 24 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 roughly roughly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 even even ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 out out ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 37 mark _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 37 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 38 up up ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a fair coin | a 1 chance of tails on every flip | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | past | whatever | | | | | before *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **catch up** *in a quote* | present | the coin | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **chance** | | tails on every flip | | | | | | 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](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:world:171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy.lesson:15`. **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): R6-punct-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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: ["I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/14/) - next →: ["I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/)