--- title: Some games are made so most people lose: coconut shies are hard on p… — "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy · tree and pragmatics description: Some games are made so most people lose: coconut shies are hard on purpose, some claw machines can be set to grip weakly, and lotteries pay back less than people spend. Who acts: most people, coconut shies, lotteries, people. 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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 (most people, coconut shies, lotteries, people), 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:9 # text = Some games are made so most people lose: coconut shies are hard on purpose, some claw machines can be set to grip weakly, and lotteries pay back less than people spend. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 coconut coconut NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 shies shy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 18 claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 grip grip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 weakly weakly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 lotteries lottery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 back back ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 32 than than SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 spend spend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | | some games | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lose** | present | most people | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | coconut shies | | | purpose | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **set** | can · passive | | some claw machines | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **grip** | to-infinitive | | | | | | weakly *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **pay back** | present | lotteries | less | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Asset | | 7 | **spend** | present | people | | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:9`. **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, 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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/8/) - next →: ["I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy/)