--- title: A little flutter once a year is harmless fun for most people, but be… — Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are har… · tree and pragmatics description: A little flutter once a year is harmless fun for most people, but betting companies always win overall, and some people lose their homes and families to it. Who acts: little flutter, betting companies, people. A sentence of the lesson «Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop» of th --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Smoking, vaping and betting: habits that are hard to stop, sentence 3 A little flutter once a year is harmless fun for most people, but betting companies always win overall, and some people lose their homes and families to it. **Who acts:** little flutter, betting companies, people · **What happens:** be, win, lose · **To what, where:** harmless fun, homes, flutter 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 (little flutter, betting companies, 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:3 # text = A little flutter once a year is harmless fun for most people, but betting companies always win overall, and some people lose their homes and families to it. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 flutter flutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 betting betting NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 16 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 18 advmod _ _ 18 win win VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis 19 overall overall ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 homes home NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 little flutter | harmless fun | | | | for most people | tree rules | | 2 | **win** | present | betting companies | | | | | always, overall *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lose** | present | some people | people's homes and families | flutter | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Eventuality | 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:3`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/2/) - next →: [Smoking, vaping and betting: habits th…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/)