--- title: Gambling is betting money on something uncertain; a bookmaker is a b… — Gambling and honesty with change · tree and pragmatics description: Gambling is betting money on something uncertain; a bookmaker is a business that takes bets, and on average players lose more than they win. Who acts: Gambling, bookmaker, business, average players. 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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 (Gambling, bookmaker, business, average 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:5 # text = Gambling is betting money on something uncertain; a bookmaker is a business that takes bets, and 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): no change 1 Gambling gambling NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 betting bet VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 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 uncertain uncertain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 bookmaker bookmaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 bets bet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 players player NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 obj _ _ 24 than than SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 win win VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bet** | present · progressive | Gambling | money | | something | | | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** | present | a bookmaker | a business | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | present | a business | bets | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bet=Theme | | 4 | **lose** | present | average players | more | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | | 5 | **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:5`. **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): no change. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change/4/) - next →: [Gambling and honesty with change, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change/)