--- title: The lottery is a game where people buy a ticket and pick numbers; th… — Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are har… · tree and pragmatics description: The lottery is a game where people buy a ticket and pick numbers; the chance of the jackpot is about one in 45 million, so almost everyone wins nothing. Who acts: lottery, people, chance, everyone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lottery, people, chance, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:028-smoking-vaping-and-betting.lesson:11 # text = The lottery is a game where people buy a ticket and pick numbers; the chance of the jackpot is about one in 45 million, so almost everyone wins nothing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 028-smoking-vaping-and-betting.lesson # annotation = 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lottery lottery NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 buy buy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ticket ticket NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 jackpot jackpot NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 45 45 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 compound _ _ 25 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 28 almost almost ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 30 nsubj _ _ 30 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the lottery | a game | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **buy** | present | people | a ticket | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ticket=Theme | | 3 | **pick** | present | people *not said here* | numbers | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | the chance of the jackpot | one | | 45 million | | about *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **win** | present | everyone | nothing | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | | 6 | **chance** | | the jackpot | | | | | | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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