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title: A "flutter" is a small bet just for fun, such as a few pounds once a… — Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are har… · tree and pragmatics
description: A "flutter" is a small bet just for fun, such as a few pounds once a year on a famous horse race. Who acts: flutter. 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 e
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# Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 16

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A "flutter" is a small bet just for fun, such as a few pounds once a year on a famous horse race.

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**Who acts:** flutter · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** small bet

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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 (flutter), 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:16
# text = A "flutter" is a small bet just for fun, such as a few pounds once a year on a famous horse race.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
3	flutter	flutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	_	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | a flutter | a small bet |  |  |  | fun *obl* | tree rules |

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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:16`.

**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. **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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