Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 3

A little flutter once a year is harmless fun for most people, but betting companies always win overall, and some people lose their homes and families to it.

Who acts: little flutter, betting companies, people · What happens: be, win, lose · To what, where: harmless fun, homes, flutter

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 (little flutter, betting companies, 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 flutter	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flutter	amod
3	flutter	flutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fun	nsubj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 flutter	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 once	obl:unmarked
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fun	cop
8	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fun	amod
9	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 people	case
11	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fun	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 win	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 win	cc
15	betting	betting	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 companies	compound
16	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 win	nsubj
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 win	advmod
18	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fun	conj
19	overall	overall	ADV	_	18 win	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lose	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lose	cc
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 people	det
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lose	nsubj
24	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 win	conj
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 homes	nmod:poss
26	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lose	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 families	cc
28	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 homes	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lose	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fun	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a little flutter	harmless fun		for most people	tree rules
2	win	present	betting companies			always, overall property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lose	present	some people	people's homes and families	flutter		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Eventuality

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:3.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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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