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title: Even small bets between friends make nothing overall: if one wins £1… — Gambling and honesty with change · tree and pragmatics
description: Even small bets between friends make nothing overall: if one wins £1, the other loses £1, and rows often follow, so many families have a "no betting for money" rule for kids. Who acts: small bets, one, other, rows. A sentence of the lesson «Gambling and honesty with change» of the money course of Mo
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# Gambling and honesty with change, sentence 12

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Even small bets between friends make nothing overall: if one wins £1, the other loses £1, and rows often follow, so many families have a "no betting for money" rule for kids.

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**Who acts:** small bets, one, other, rows, loses · **What happens:** make, win, lose, follow, have · **To what, where:** nothing, betting

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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 (small bets, one, other, rows), 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:12
# text = Even small bets between friends make nothing overall: if one wins £1, the other loses £1, and rows often follow, so many families have a "no betting for money" rule for kids.
# 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): R5-strong ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bets	bet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	_
8	overall	overall	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
12	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advcl
13	£	£	SYM	$	_	12	obj	_	_
14	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod
18	loses	lose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
19	£	£	SYM	$	_	18	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:acl:relcl
20	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:det
32	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	betting	betting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
38	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:conj
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **make** | present | small bets between friends | nothing |  |  |  | overall *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nothing=Product |
| 2 | **win** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Eventuality |
| 3 | **lose** |  | the other |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **follow** | present | rows |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | present | loses | no betting |  |  |  | for money | 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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**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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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