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title: Gambling means risking money in the hope of winning something worth… — Loot boxes and "free" skins · tree and pragmatics
description: Gambling means risking money in the hope of winning something worth more. Who acts: Gambling, hope. A sentence of the lesson «Loot boxes and "free" skins» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Loot boxes and "free" skins, sentence 6

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Gambling means risking money in the hope of winning something worth more.

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**Who acts:** Gambling, hope · **What happens:** mean, risk, win · **To what, where:** money, hope, something

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Loot boxes and "free" skins» of the money 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, hope), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:017-loot-boxes-and-free-skins.lesson:6
# text = Gambling means risking money in the hope of winning something worth more.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 017-loot-boxes-and-free-skins.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	Gambling	gambling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	risking	risk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
9	winning	win	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **mean** | present | Gambling |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **risk** *not said to happen* | gerund | Gambling *not said here* | money |  | the hope |  |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Pivot |
| 3 | **win** | gerund | the hope *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |

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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): 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.

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