Gambling and honesty with change, sentence 0
Gambling means betting money on something you cannot control, like horses, scratchcards or a claw machine, and the companies that run it are set up so that, on average, players lose more than they win.
Who acts: Gambling, you, companies, players · What happens: mean, bet, not control, run, set up, lose · To what, where: money, something, horses, companies, average, more
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gambling and honesty with change» of the money 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, you, companies, players), 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 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | betting | bet | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 betting | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 something | case |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 betting | obl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 control | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 control | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 control | advmod |
| 10 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 something | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 horses | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 horses | case |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 control | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 scratchcards | punct |
| 15 | scratchcards | scratchcard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 horses | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 machine | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 machine | det |
| 18 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 machine | compound |
| 19 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 horses | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 set | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 set | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 companies | det |
| 23 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 set | nsubj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 run | nsubj |
| 25 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 companies | acl:relcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 run | obj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 set | aux:pass |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 means | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 set | compound:prt |
| 30 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 37 lose | mark |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 so | fixed |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 average | punct |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 average | case |
| 34 | average | average | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 lose | punct |
| 36 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 lose | nsubj |
| 37 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 set | advcl |
| 38 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 lose | obj |
| 39 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 41 win | mark |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 win | nsubj |
| 41 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 more | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Gambling | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bet not said to happen | gerund | Gambling not said here | money | something | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Recipient | |||
| 3 | not control | can | you | horses and scratchcards or a claw machine | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | present | the companies | money | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | set up | present · passive | the companies | average | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on average=Destination | ||||
| 6 | lose | present | players | more | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | win | present | players = player | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=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:money:040-gambling-and-honesty-with-change.lesson:0.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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