Paying for a home and the bills, sentence 4
Most bills leave the bank account by themselves, by direct debit, so the money seems to vanish without anyone paying at a till.
Who acts: Most bills, money · What happens: leave, seem, vanish, pay · To what, where: bank account, till
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 (Most bills, money), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 bills | amod |
| 2 | bills | bill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 account | det |
| 5 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 account | compound |
| 6 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leave | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 themselves | case |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 leave | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 debit | punct |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 debit | case |
| 11 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 debit | amod |
| 12 | debit | debit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leave | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seems | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 seems | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 money | det |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seems | nsubj |
| 17 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 leave | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 vanish | mark |
| 19 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 seems | xcomp |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 anyone | case |
| 21 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 vanish | obl |
| 22 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 anyone | acl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 till | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 till | det |
| 25 | till | till | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 paying | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | Most bills | the bank account | by bills = bill; by direct debit | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent account=Theme by themselves=Location | |||
| 2 | seem | present | the money | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | vanish | to-infinitive | the money not said here | without anyone | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pay | gerund | a till | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:4.
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): no change. 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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