Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 11
The lottery is a game where people buy a ticket and pick numbers; the chance of the jackpot is about one in 45 million, so almost everyone wins nothing.
Who acts: lottery, people, chance, everyone, jackpot · What happens: be, buy, pick, win, chance · To what, where: game, ticket, numbers, one, 45 million, nothing
This is a sentence of the lesson «Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop» of the adult life 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 (lottery, people, chance, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lottery | det |
| 2 | lottery | lottery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 game | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 game | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 game | det |
| 5 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 buy | advmod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 buy | nsubj |
| 8 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 game | acl:relcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ticket | det |
| 10 | ticket | ticket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buy | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pick | cc |
| 12 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 buy | conj |
| 13 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pick | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chance | det |
| 16 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 one | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 jackpot | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 jackpot | det |
| 19 | jackpot | jackpot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chance | nmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 one | cop |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 one | advmod |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 game | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 million | case |
| 24 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 million | compound |
| 25 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 one | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 wins | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 wins | advmod |
| 28 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 29 everyone | advmod |
| 29 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 30 wins | nsubj |
| 30 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 game | conj |
| 31 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 30 wins | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 game | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the lottery | a game | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | buy | present | people | a ticket | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ticket=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pick | present | people not said here | numbers | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the chance of the jackpot | one | 45 million | about property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | win | present | everyone | nothing | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | chance | the jackpot | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=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, 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:adult-life:028-smoking-vaping-and-betting.lesson:11.
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.
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