Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 10

Bills are regular payments for electricity, gas, water, the internet, phones and council tax; paid late, they bring extra charges and services can be cut off.

Who acts: Bills · What happens: be, pay, bring, cut off · To what, where: regular payments, council tax, extra charges, services

This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life 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 (Bills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 payments	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 payments	cop
3	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 payments	amod
4	payments	payment	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 electricity	case
6	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 payments	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gas	punct
8	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 electricity	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 water	punct
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 electricity	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 internet	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 internet	det
13	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 electricity	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 phones	punct
15	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 electricity	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tax	cc
17	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tax	compound
18	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 electricity	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 paid	punct
20	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 tax	acl
21	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 paid	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bring	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bring	nsubj
24	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tax	conj
25	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 charges	amod
26	charges	charge	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bring	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 services	cc
28	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 cut	nsubj:pass
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 cut	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 cut	aux:pass
31	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 bring	conj
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 cut	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 payments	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bills	regular payments	for electricity and gas and water and the internet and phones and council tax	tree rules
2	pay	participle		council tax not said here	late property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	bring	present	bills = bill	extra charges		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent charge=Theme
4	cut off	can · passive		services		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=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, 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:adult-life:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:10.

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 ×1, R6-punct-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.

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