Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 13
Betting companies set the odds so that, overall, they always make money.
Who acts: Betting companies, companies · What happens: set, make · To what, where: odds, money
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 (Betting companies, companies), 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 | Betting | betting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 companies | compound |
| 2 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 odds | det |
| 5 | odds | odd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obj |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 so | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 9 | overall | overall | ADV | _ | 13 make | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | _ | 13 make | advmod |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | advcl |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Betting companies | the odds | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient odd=Result | ||||
| 2 | make | present | companies = company | money | always, overall property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product |
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:13.
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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