--- title: On average people get back less money from scratch cards and lotteri… — "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy · tree and pragmatics description: On average people get back less money from scratch cards and lotteries than they spend; that is how lotteries make money. Who acts: people, that, lotteries. 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 --- [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/22/) [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/) / 22 # "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, sentence 22 On average people get back less money from scratch cards and lotteries than they spend; that is how lotteries make money. **Who acts:** people, that, lotteries · **What happens:** get back, spend, be, make · **To what, where:** less money, average, money 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, that, lotteries), 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:22 # text = On average people get back less money from scratch cards and lotteries than they spend; that is how lotteries make money. # 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 ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 average average NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 amod _ _ 7 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 scratch scratch NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 lotteries lottery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 than than SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 spend spend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 17 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 nsubj _ _ 18 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 lotteries lottery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 22 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 . . 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 | **get back** | present | people | less money | | average | | from scratch cards and lotteries | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme on average=Source | | 2 | **spend** | present | people | | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **be** | present | that | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | present | lotteries | money | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product | 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:22`. **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 ×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, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/21/) - next →: ["I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/)