--- title: Dice don't save up sixes, lottery balls don't remember your numbers,… — "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy · tree and pragmatics description: Dice don't save up sixes, lottery balls don't remember your numbers, scratch cards don't fill up a winning bar, and the weather doesn't take turns. Who acts: Dice, lottery balls, scratch cards, weather. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dice, lottery balls, scratch cards, weather), 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:5 # text = Dice don't save up sixes, lottery balls don't remember your numbers, scratch cards don't fill up a winning bar, and the weather doesn't take turns. # 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 Dice dice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 sixes six NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 lottery lottery NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 balls ball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 10 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 scratch scratch NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 fill fill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 winning winning NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 32 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **save up** | present · do-support | Dice | sixes | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=Theme | | 2 | **not** **remember** | present · do-support | lottery balls | your numbers | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme | | 3 | **not** **fill up** | present · do-support | scratch cards | a winning bar | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bar=Patient | | 4 | **not** **take** | present · do-support | the weather | turns | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=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:5`. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/4/) - next →: ["I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/)