--- title: Gambling means betting money on something you cannot control, like h… — Gambling and honesty with change · tree and pragmatics description: Gambling means betting money on something you cannot control, like horses, scratchcards or a claw machine, and the companies that run it are set up so that, on average, players lose more than they win. Who acts: Gambling, you, companies, players. A sentence of the lesson «Gambling and honesty with c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change/0/) [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/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / [Gambling and honesty with change](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change/) / 0 # Gambling and honesty with change, sentence 0 Gambling means betting money on something you cannot control, like horses, scratchcards or a claw machine, and the companies that run it are set up so that, on average, players lose more than they win. **Who acts:** Gambling, you, companies, players · **What happens:** mean, bet, not control, run, set up, lose · **To what, where:** money, something, horses, companies, average, more This is a sentence of the lesson «Gambling and honesty with change» 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, you, companies, players), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:040-gambling-and-honesty-with-change.lesson:0 # text = Gambling means betting money on something you cannot control, like horses, scratchcards or a claw machine, and the companies that run it are set up so that, on average, players lose more than they win. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 040-gambling-and-honesty-with-change.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Gambling gambling NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 betting bet VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obl _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 control control VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 scratchcards scratchcard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 machine machine NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 29 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 so so SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 fixed _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 average average NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 players player NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:conj 38 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 37 obj _ _ 39 than than SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 win win VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **bet** *not said to happen* | gerund | Gambling *not said here* | money | | something | | | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Recipient | | 3 | **not** **control** | can | you | horses and scratchcards or a claw machine | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | | 4 | **run** | present | the companies | money | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | | 5 | **set up** | present · passive | | the companies | | average | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on average=Destination | | 6 | **lose** | present | players | more | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | | 7 | **win** | present | players *= player* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:money:040-gambling-and-honesty-with-change.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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