--- title: Betting things on facts can lose you both the thing and the friend;… — Friends who cling to a legend · tree and pragmatics description: Betting things on facts can lose you both the thing and the friend; checking together costs nothing. Who acts: Betting, checking. A sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / [Friends who cling to a legend](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/) / 17 # Friends who cling to a legend, sentence 17 Betting things on facts can lose you both the thing and the friend; checking together costs nothing. **Who acts:** Betting, checking · **What happens:** bet, lose, check, cost · **To what, where:** things, facts, you, nothing This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» of the myths 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 (Betting, checking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:17 # text = Betting things on facts can lose you both the thing and the friend; checking together costs nothing. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Betting bet VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ _ 2 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 8 both both CCONJ CC _ 10 cc:preconj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 15 checking check VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 csubj _ _ 16 together together ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 18 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bet** | gerund | | things | | facts | | | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | | 2 | **lose** | can | Betting | | you | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | | 3 | **check** | gerund | | | | | | together *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cost** | present | checking | nothing | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme nothing=Value | 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:myths:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:17`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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: [Friends who cling to a legend, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/16/) - next →: [Friends who cling to a legend, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/)