--- title: A scratch card is a quick lottery ticket; the "almost won" feeling i… — Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are har… · tree and pragmatics description: A scratch card is a quick lottery ticket; the "almost won" feeling is designed to make people buy another. Who acts: scratch card, people. 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 a --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 14 A scratch card is a quick lottery ticket; the "almost won" feeling is designed to make people buy another. **Who acts:** scratch card, people · **What happens:** be, win, design, make, buy · **To what, where:** quick lottery ticket, won feeling, people, another 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 (scratch card, people), 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:14 # text = A scratch card is a quick lottery ticket; the "almost won" feeling is designed to make people buy another. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 scratch scratch NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 lottery lottery NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 ticket ticket NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 12 almost almost ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 won win VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 amod _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 15 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 designed design VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | a scratch card | a quick lottery ticket | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **win** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | almost *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **design** | present · passive | | won feeling | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | | people | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **buy** | infinitive | people *not said here* | another | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme | 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:14`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/13/) - next →: [Smoking, vaping and betting: habits th…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/)