--- title: Fairground games and many claw machines are made so that most player… — "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy · tree and pragmatics description: Fairground games and many claw machines are made so that most players lose; claw machines can be set by the owner to grip weakly most of the time. Who acts: most players, owner. 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 de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / ["I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/) / 21 # "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, sentence 21 Fairground games and many claw machines are made so that most players lose; claw machines can be set by the owner to grip weakly most of the time. **Who acts:** most players, owner · **What happens:** make, lose, set, grip · **To what, where:** Fairground games, claw machines, most 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 (most players, owner), 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:21 # text = Fairground games and many claw machines are made so that most players lose; claw machines can be set by the owner to grip weakly most of the time. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Fairground fairground NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 so so SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 players player NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 20 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 grip grip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 25 weakly weakly ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 26 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | | Fairground games and many claw machines | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **lose** | present | most players | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **set** | can · passive | the owner | claw machines | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient subject=Result | | 4 | **grip** | to-infinitive | the owner *not said here* | most of the time | | | | weakly *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:21`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/20/) - next →: ["I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/)