--- title: Practice changes your chances; a losing streak does not. — "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy · tree and pragmatics description: Practice changes your chances; a losing streak does not. Who acts: Practice, losing streak, your. 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/8/) [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/) / 8 # "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, sentence 8 Practice changes your chances; a losing streak does not. **Who acts:** Practice, losing streak, your · **What happens:** change, not do, chance · **To what, where:** chances 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 (Practice, losing streak, your), 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:8 # text = Practice changes your chances; a losing streak does not. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 chances chance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 losing losing NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 streak streak NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 11 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Practice | your chances | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | | 2 | **not** **do** | present | a losing streak | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **chance** | | your | | | | | | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:8`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: ["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/) - next →: ["I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/)