--- title: Betting companies set the odds so that, overall, they always make mo… — Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are har… · tree and pragmatics description: Betting companies set the odds so that, overall, they always make money. Who acts: Betting companies, companies. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Smoking, vaping and betting: habits th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/) / 13 # Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 13 Betting companies set the odds so that, overall, they always make money. **Who acts:** Betting companies, companies · **What happens:** set, make · **To what, where:** odds, money 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 (Betting companies, companies), 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:13 # text = Betting companies set the odds so that, overall, they always make 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Betting betting NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 2 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 odds odd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 so so SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 overall overall ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 always always ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 14 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | past | Betting companies | the odds | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient odd=Result | | 2 | **make** | present | companies *= company* | money | | | | always, overall *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:adult-life:028-smoking-vaping-and-betting.lesson:13`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Smoking, vaping and betting: habits th…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/12/) - next →: [Smoking, vaping and betting: habits th…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/)