--- title: Before playing any game that costs money, decide your limit and stop… — "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy · tree and pragmatics description: Before playing any game that costs money, decide your limit and stop when you reach it. Who acts: you, game. 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. --- [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/24/) [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/) / 24 # "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, sentence 24 Before playing any game that costs money, decide your limit and stop when you reach it. **Who acts:** you, game · **What happens:** play, cost, decide, stop, reach · **To what, where:** game, money, limit 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 (you, game), 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:24 # text = Before playing any game that costs money, decide your limit and stop when you reach it. # 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): no change 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ _ 3 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 4 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 decide decide VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 limit limit NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 reach reach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | gerund | you *not said here* | any game | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | | 2 | **cost** | present | any game | money | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme money=Value | | 3 | **decide** | imperative | you *not said here* | your limit | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent limit=Topic | | 4 | **stop** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **reach** | present | you | money | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:24`. **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): no change. **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, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/23/) - next →: ["I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/)