Gambling and honesty with change, sentence 11

Claw machines are set so that you usually lose: £5 spent on a £2 teddy is £3 lost even if you win it.

Who acts: you · What happens: set, lose, spend, win · To what, where: Claw machines, £ teddy, £ 5, machine

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 (you), 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	Claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 machines	compound
2	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 set	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 set	aux:pass
4	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 lose	mark
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 so	fixed
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 lose	nsubj
8	usually	usually	ADV	_	9 lose	advmod
9	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 set	advcl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 so	punct
11	£	£	SYM	_	12 5	compound
12	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 lost	nsubj
13	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 5	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 teddy	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 teddy	det
16	£	£	SYM	_	18 teddy	compound
17	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 £	flat
18	teddy	teddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spent	obl
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 lost	aux:pass
20	£	£	SYM	_	21 3	compound
21	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 lost	obl:unmarked
22	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 lose	parataxis
23	even	even	ADV	_	26 win	advmod
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 win	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 win	nsubj
26	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 lost	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 win	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	present · passive		Claw machines		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	lose	present	you		usually property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	spend	participle			on a £ teddy goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on teddy=Goal
4	lose	present · passive		£ 5	£ 3 obl:unmarked	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	win a condition, not said to happen	present	you	machine		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:money:040-gambling-and-honesty-with-change.lesson:11.

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, R8-pos-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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