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title: In rock-paper-scissors against a person, people have habits, and a g… — "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy · tree and pragmatics
description: In rock-paper-scissors against a person, people have habits, and a good player can notice them. Who acts: people, good player. 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 20

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In rock-paper-scissors against a person, people have habits, and a good player can notice them.

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**Who acts:** people, good player · **What happens:** have, notice · **To what, where:** habits, rock paper scissors

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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 (people, good player), 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:20
# text = In rock-paper-scissors against a person, people have habits, and a good player can notice them.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	habits	habit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | people | habits |  | rock paper scissors against a person |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=Patient |
| 2 | **notice** | can | a good player | habits *= habit* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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:20`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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