Gambling and honesty with change, sentence 8
Gambling can become an addiction, which means not being able to stop doing something harmful; it can start at £5 a week and grow to £500, and it hurts whole families.
Who acts: Gambling, addiction · What happens: become, mean, not be, stop, do, start · To what, where: addiction, something, whole families · Speech: someone speaks here
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, addiction), 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 | 3 become | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 become | aux |
| 3 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 addiction | det |
| 5 | addiction | addiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 become | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 means | nsubj |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 addiction | acl:relcl |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 able | advmod |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 stop | mark |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 stop | xcomp |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 doing | obj |
| 16 | harmful | harmful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 something | amod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 start | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 start | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 start | aux |
| 20 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 become | parataxis |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 £ | case |
| 22 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 20 start | obl |
| 23 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 £ | nummod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 week | det |
| 25 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 start | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 grow | cc |
| 27 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 start | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 £ | case |
| 29 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 27 grow | obl |
| 30 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 £ | nummod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hurts | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 hurts | cc |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 hurts | nsubj |
| 34 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 start | conj |
| 35 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 families | amod |
| 36 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 hurts | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 become | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | can | Gambling | a addiction | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | a addiction | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | gerund | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stop | to-infinitive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | do | gerund | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | start | can | addiction | week | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | grow | infinitive | addiction not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | hurt | present | addiction | whole families | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Patient |
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:8.
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): 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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