--- title: Random draws often come in clumps by chance; two lucky boxes in a ro… — Loot boxes, streaks and the sunk cost · tree and pragmatics description: Random draws often come in clumps by chance; two lucky boxes in a row don't change the next box's chance, and thinking they do is the hot-hand fallacy. Who acts: Random draws, two lucky boxes, boxes, thinking. 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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 (Random draws, two lucky boxes, boxes, thinking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost.lesson:15 # text = Random draws often come in clumps by chance; two lucky boxes in a row don't change the next box's chance, and thinking they do is the hot-hand fallacy. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Random random ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 draws draw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 clumps clump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 10 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 11 lucky lucky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 26 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 csubj _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 31 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:amod 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 fallacy fallacy NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 35 . . 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 | **come** | present | Random draws | | | clumps | | by chance; often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in clump=Location | | 2 | **not** **change** | present · do-support | two lucky boxes in a row | the next box's chance | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **do** | present | boxes *= box* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | thinking | the hand fallacy | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **chance** | | the next box | | | | | | 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:172-loot-boxes-streaks-and-the-sunk-cost.lesson:15`. **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, 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. 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