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title: A bet is money risked on something happening, such as a score; if it… — Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are har… · tree and pragmatics
description: A bet is money risked on something happening, such as a score; if it happens you win more back, if not you lose your money. Who acts: it, you. A sentence of the lesson «Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 12

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A bet is money risked on something happening, such as a score; if it happens you win more back, if not you lose your money.

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**Who acts:** it, you · **What happens:** be, risk, happen, win, lose · **To what, where:** money, something

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop» of the adult life 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 (it, you), 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:12
# text = A bet is money risked on something happening, such as a score; if it happens you win more back, if not you lose your money.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	risked	risk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
8	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:mark
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present · passive |  | money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **risk** | participle |  | money *not said here* |  | something |  |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **happen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | such a score | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **win** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **lose** | present | you | your money |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:adult-life:028-smoking-vaping-and-betting.lesson:12`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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