Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 17

Gambling addiction means a person keeps betting to win back losses, which leads to debt, lying and family arguments; help exists from doctors and charities.

Who acts: Gambling addiction, person, help · What happens: mean, keep, bet, win back, lead, exist · To what, where: losses, doctors · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Gambling addiction, person, help), 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	Gambling	gambling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 addiction	compound
2	addiction	addiction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 person	det
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeps	nsubj
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
7	betting	bet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keeps	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 win	mark
9	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 betting	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 win	advmod
11	losses	loss	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 win	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 leads	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 leads	nsubj
14	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 debt	case
16	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leads	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lying	punct
18	lying	lying	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 debt	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 arguments	cc
20	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 arguments	compound
21	arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lying	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 exists	punct
23	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 exists	nsubj
24	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 doctors	case
26	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 exists	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 charities	cc
28	charities	charity	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 doctors	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Gambling addiction				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	keep	present	a person				tree rules
3	bet	gerund	a person not said here				vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	win back	to-infinitive	a person not said here	losses			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=Eventuality
5	lead	present				to debt and lying and family arguments	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to debt=Patient
6	exist	present	help		doctors and charities		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:17.

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 ×1, 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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