Paying for a home and the bills, sentence 10
A mortgage is a huge loan from a bank to buy a home, paid back monthly over about 25 years with interest; if payments stop for a long time the bank can take the home back.
Who acts: mortgage, payments, bank · What happens: be, buy, pay back, stop, take back · To what, where: huge loan, bank, home
This is a sentence of the lesson «Paying for a home and the bills» 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 (mortgage, payments, bank), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mortgage | det |
| 2 | mortgage | mortgage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loan | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 loan | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 loan | det |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 loan | amod |
| 6 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 bank | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bank | det |
| 9 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loan | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 buy | mark |
| 11 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 loan | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 home | det |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 buy | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 paid | punct |
| 15 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 loan | acl |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 paid | advmod |
| 17 | monthly | monthly | ADV | _ | 15 paid | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 19 about | advmod |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 25 | advmod |
| 20 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 years | nummod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 paid | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 interest | case |
| 23 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 paid | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 take | punct |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 stop | mark |
| 26 | payments | payment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 stop | nsubj |
| 27 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 take | advcl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 time | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 time | det |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 time | amod |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stop | obl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bank | det |
| 33 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 take | aux |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 loan | parataxis |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 home | det |
| 37 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obj |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 35 take | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 loan | punct |
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 | is a | present | a mortgage | a huge loan | a bank | tree rules | |||
| 2 | buy | to-infinitive | a home | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pay back | participle | a huge loan not said here | year | with interest; monthly property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | stop a condition, not said to happen | present | payments | time | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | take back | can | the bank | the home | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
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:006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.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, 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.
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