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title: Shares are not quite gambling, because you own a real piece of a rea… — Crypto and the stock market, simply · tree and pragmatics
description: Shares are not quite gambling, because you own a real piece of a real business; but treating shares like a bet is dangerous. Who acts: Shares, you, treating. A sentence of the lesson «Crypto and the stock market, simply» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Crypto and the stock market, simply, sentence 16

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Shares are not quite gambling, because you own a real piece of a real business; but treating shares like a bet is dangerous.

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**Who acts:** Shares, you, treating · **What happens:** not gamble, own, treat, be · **To what, where:** real piece, shares

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Crypto and the stock market, simply» 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 (Shares, you, treating), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:038-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply.lesson:16
# text = Shares are not quite gambling, because you own a real piece of a real business; but treating shares like a bet is dangerous.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 038-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply.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	Shares	share	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	gambling	gamble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	own	own	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	treating	treat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	csubj	_	_
20	shares	share	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **not** **gamble** | present · progressive | Shares |  |  |  |  |  | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **own** | present | you | a real piece of a real business |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot piece=Theme |
| 3 | **treat** | gerund |  | shares |  |  |  | like a bet | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent share=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | treating |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | 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:money:038-crypto-and-the-stock-market-simply.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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