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title: "Tails is DUE now, it has to be!" But the coin has no memory. — "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy · tree and pragmatics
description: "Tails is DUE now, it has to be!" But the coin has no memory. Who acts: Tails, coin. A sentence of the lesson «"I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, sentence 2

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"Tails is DUE now, it has to be!" But the coin has no memory.

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**Who acts:** Tails, coin · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** memory

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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 (Tails, coin), 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:2
# text = "Tails is DUE now, it has to be!" But the coin has no memory.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	DUE	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	0	root	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Tails |  |  |  | now | due *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | coin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | coin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | the coin | no memory |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient |

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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:world:171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy.lesson:2`.

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

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