--- title: Gambling can become an addiction, which means not being able to stop… — Gambling and honesty with change · tree and pragmatics description: Gambling can become an addiction, which means not being able to stop doing something harmful; it can start at £5 a week and grow to £500, and it hurts whole families. Who acts: Gambling, addiction. 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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, addiction), 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:8 # text = Gambling can become an addiction, which means not being able to stop doing something harmful; it can start at £5 a week and grow to £500, and it hurts whole families. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Gambling gambling NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 addiction addiction NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 cop _ _ 11 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ _ 15 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 harmful harmful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 £ £ SYM $ _ 20 obl _ _ 23 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 £ £ SYM $ _ 27 obl _ _ 30 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 35 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 37 . . 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 | **become** | can | Gambling | a addiction | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | a addiction | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is** | gerund | | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **do** | gerund | | something | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 6 | **start** | can | addiction | | | | week | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **grow** | infinitive | addiction *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **hurt** | present | addiction | whole families | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer family=Patient | 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:8`. **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): R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Gambling and honesty with change, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change/7/) - next →: [Gambling and honesty with change, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/40-gambling-and-honesty-with-change/)