Gambling and honesty with change, sentence 7

Odds are the chance of winning; the top prize on a scratchcard or lottery might be 1 in several million, so most people lose most of the time.

Who acts: Odds, chance, most people · What happens: be, win, lose · To what, where: chance, 1, several million, most

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 (Odds, chance, most 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	Odds	odd	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chance	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chance	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chance	det
4	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 winning	mark
6	winning	win	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 chance	acl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 prize	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prize	det
9	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 prize	amod
10	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chance	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 scratchcard	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 scratchcard	det
13	scratchcard	scratchcard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 prize	nmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 lottery	cc
15	lottery	lottery	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 scratchcard	conj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 1	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 1	cop
18	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 chance	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 million	case
20	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 million	amod
21	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 1	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lose	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 lose	advmod
24	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 people	amod
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lose	nsubj
26	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chance	conj
27	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 lose	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 time	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 most	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chance	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	Odds	the chance and the top prize on a scratchcard or lottery		tree rules
2	win	gerund	the chance and the top prize on a scratchcard or lottery not said here			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	might	Odds not said here	1	several million	tree rules
4	lose	present	most people	most of the time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=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:7.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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