--- title: Thinking a result is "due" because it hasn't come up for a while is… — "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy · tree and pragmatics description: Thinking a result is "due" because it hasn't come up for a while is called the gambler's fallacy. Who acts: result, Thinking. 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/4/) [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/) / 4 # "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, sentence 4 Thinking a result is "due" because it hasn't come up for a while is called the gambler's fallacy. **Who acts:** result, Thinking · **What happens:** think, be, not come up, call · **To what, where:** fallacy · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (result, Thinking), 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:4 # text = Thinking a result is "due" because it hasn't come up for a while is called the gambler's fallacy. # 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 Thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 csubj:pass _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 due due ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 1 ccomp _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 gambler gambler NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 fallacy fallacy NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a result | | | | | due *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **come up** | present · perfect | result | | | | while | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | Thinking | the gambler's fallacy | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | 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:4`. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/3/) - next →: ["I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/)