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title: Weather patterns can last for days or weeks; the best guide to next… — "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy · tree and pragmatics
description: Weather patterns can last for days or weeks; the best guide to next Saturday is the weather forecast. Who acts: Weather patterns, best guide. 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 
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# "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, sentence 23

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Weather patterns can last for days or weeks; the best guide to next Saturday is the weather forecast.

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**Who acts:** Weather patterns, best guide · **What happens:** last, be · **To what, where:** weather forecast

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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 (Weather patterns, best guide), 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:23
# text = Weather patterns can last for days or weeks; the best guide to next Saturday is the weather forecast.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	forecast	forecast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
20	.	.	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 | **last** | can | Weather patterns |  |  |  | day |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the best guide to next Saturday | the weather forecast |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:23`.

**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, 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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