--- title: Picture Uncle Mick betting £20 every Saturday: over 52 weeks that is… — Gambling and honesty with change · tree and pragmatics description: Picture Uncle Mick betting £20 every Saturday: over 52 weeks that is £1,040, and if he wins £200 back he has still lost £840; "I'll win big one day" is exactly the feeling gambling feeds on. Who acts: Uncle, Gambling, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle, Gambling, I), 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:1 # text = Picture Uncle Mick betting £20 every Saturday: over 52 weeks that is £1,040, and if he wins £200 back he has still lost £840; "I'll win big one day" is exactly the feeling gambling feeds on. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 43 parataxis _ _ 2 Uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 Mick Mick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 4 betting bet VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 £ £ SYM $ _ 4 obj _ _ 6 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 Saturday Saturday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 over over ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 52 52 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 £ £ SYM $ _ 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 1,040 1,040 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 22 £ £ SYM $ _ 21 obj _ _ 23 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 24 back back ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 still still ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 29 £ £ SYM $ _ 28 obj _ _ 30 840 840 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 win win VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 36 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:obj 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 41 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 44 gambling gambling NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 acl:relcl _ _ 46 on on ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=45:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=43:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | infinitive | | Uncle and 52 weeks | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent uncle=Theme | | 2 | **bet** | gerund | Uncle and 52 weeks *not said here* | | | | saturday | | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent £=Recipient | | 3 | **win back** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Gambling | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Eventuality | | 4 | **lose** | present · perfect | Gambling | | | | still | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Eventuality | | 5 | **win** *in a quote* | future | I | | | | day | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | | the feeling | | | | exactly *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **feed on** | present | gambling | the feeling *not said here* | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Recipient | 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:1`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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: [Gambling and honesty with change, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change/0/) - next →: [Gambling and honesty with change, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change/)