--- title: Odds are the chance of winning; the top prize on a scratchcard or lo… — Gambling and honesty with change · tree and pragmatics description: Odds are the chance of winning; the top prize on a scratchcard or lottery might be 1 in several million, so most people lose most of the time. Who acts: Odds, chance, most people. 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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 (Odds, chance, most people), 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:7 # text = Odds are the chance of winning; the top prize on a scratchcard or lottery might be 1 in several million, so most people lose most of the time. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Odds odd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 winning win VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 prize prize NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 scratchcard scratchcard NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 lottery lottery NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 cop _ _ 18 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 amod _ _ 25 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Odds | the chance and the top prize on a scratchcard or lottery | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **win** | gerund | the chance and the top prize on a scratchcard or lottery *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | might | Odds *not said here* | 1 | | several million | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lose** | present | most people | most of the time | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality | 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:7`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Gambling and honesty with change, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change/5/) - next →: [Gambling and honesty with change, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change/)