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title: Gambling is against the law under 18, and a child should never keep… — Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are har… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gambling is against the law under 18, and a child should never keep a grown-up's gambling or money worries secret. Who acts: Gambling, child, grown up. 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 depe
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# Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 18

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Gambling is against the law under 18, and a child should never keep a grown-up's gambling or money worries secret.

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**Who acts:** Gambling, child, grown up · **What happens:** be, not keep, grow, worry · **To what, where:** 18, gambling worries

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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 (Gambling, child, grown up), 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:18
# text = Gambling is against the law under 18, and a child should never keep a grown-up's gambling or money worries secret.
# 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): no change
1	Gambling	gambling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	gambling	gambling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	worries	worry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
24	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** | present | Gambling |  |  | 18 |  | against the law | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **keep** | should | a child | a grown up's gambling worries |  |  |  | secret *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worry=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **worry** |  | a grown up |  |  |  |  |  | nom worry «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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): no change. **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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