--- title: In a game of skill it is different again: losing eight Mario Kart ra… — "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy · tree and pragmatics description: In a game of skill it is different again: losing eight Mario Kart races in a row doesn't make you "due" a win; it usually means the other player is better. Who acts: weather, losing, it, other player. 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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 (weather, losing, it, other player), 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:6 # text = In a game of skill it is different again: losing eight Mario Kart races in a row doesn't make you "due" a win; it usually means the other player is better. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 again again ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 11 losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 csubj _ _ 12 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 13 Mario Mario PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 Kart Kart PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 races race NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 24 due due ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 21 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:amod 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 win win NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 usually usually ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 player player NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 ccomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | weather | | | a game of skill | again | different *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **lose** | gerund | | eight Mario Kart races | | a row | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality | | 3 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | losing | you | | | | a win *obl*; due *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | | 4 | **mean** | present | it | | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | the other player | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | 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:6`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/5/) - next →: ["I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/)