Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 14
A scratch card is a quick lottery ticket; the "almost won" feeling is designed to make people buy another.
Who acts: scratch card, people · What happens: be, win, design, make, buy · To what, where: quick lottery ticket, won feeling, people, another
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 (scratch card, people), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 card | det |
| 2 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 card | compound |
| 3 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ticket | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ticket | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ticket | det |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ticket | amod |
| 7 | lottery | lottery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ticket | compound |
| 8 | ticket | ticket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 designed | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 designed | det |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 won | punct |
| 12 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 13 won | advmod |
| 13 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 feeling | amod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 won | punct |
| 15 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 designed | aux:pass |
| 17 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ticket | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 designed | advcl |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 make | xcomp |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 buy | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ticket | 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 | a scratch card | a quick lottery ticket | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win in a quote | participle | almost property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | design | present · passive | won feeling | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | people | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | buy | infinitive | people not said here | another | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme |
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:14.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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