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title: Every exact list of 10 fair coin flips, ten heads or any mixed list,… — Sounds wrong, but is right · tree and pragmatics
description: Every exact list of 10 fair coin flips, ten heads or any mixed list, has the same chance: 1 in 1,024. Who acts: exact list. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds wrong, but is right» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 16

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Every exact list of 10 fair coin flips, ten heads or any mixed list, has the same chance: 1 in 1,024.

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**Who acts:** exact list · **What happens:** mix, have, list · **To what, where:** same chance, 10 fair coin flips

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds wrong, but is right» 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 (exact list), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.lesson:16
# text = Every exact list of 10 fair coin flips, ten heads or any mixed list, has the same chance: 1 in 1,024.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	flips	flip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
15	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	appos	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	1,024	1,024	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | every exact list of 10 fair coin flips and ten heads or any mixed list | the same chance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient |
| 3 | **list** |  |  | 10 fair coin flips and ten heads or any mixed list |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.lesson:16`.

**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): 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/).

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