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title: A 1-in-6 chance of a six is a chance on each roll, not a promise: yo… — Sounds right, but is wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: A 1-in-6 chance of a six is a chance on each roll, not a promise: you can roll 6 times and get no six at all, and that happens about 1 time in 3. Who acts: 1 6 chance, you, that. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds right, but is wrong» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Sounds right, but is wrong, sentence 18

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A 1-in-6 chance of a six is a chance on each roll, not a promise: you can roll 6 times and get no six at all, and that happens about 1 time in 3.

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**Who acts:** 1 6 chance, you, that · **What happens:** be, roll, get, happen · **To what, where:** roll, 1 6 chance, six, all

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds right, but is wrong» 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 (1 6 chance, you, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:18
# text = A 1-in-6 chance of a six is a chance on each roll, not a promise: you can roll 6 times and get no six at all, and that happens about 1 time in 3.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
10	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nummod
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
25	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
30	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	nsubj	_	_
36	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
37	about	about	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:obj
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a 1 6 chance  a six |  |  | each roll and a promise |  | of a chance | tree rules |
| 2 | **roll** | can | you | a 1 6 chance  a six *not said here* |  |  | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Agent |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* | no six |  | all |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent six=Theme at all=Asset |
| 4 | **happen** | present | that |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:18`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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