Borrowing and debt, sentence 12

A credit card bill shows what was spent that month; paying all of it means no interest, paying part makes the debt grow.

Who acts: card bill, paying, debt · What happens: show, spend, pay, mean, make, grow · To what, where: all, interest, part, debt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Borrowing and debt» 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 (card bill, paying, debt), 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	4 bill	det
2	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 card	compound
3	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bill	compound
4	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shows	nsubj
5	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 spent	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 spent	aux:pass
8	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 shows	ccomp
9	that	that	DET	PronType=Dem	10 month	det
10	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spent	obl:unmarked
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 paying	punct
12	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 means	csubj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 paying	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 all	nmod
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shows	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 interest	det
18	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 means	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 paying	punct
20	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 makes	csubj
21	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 paying	obj
22	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 shows	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 debt	det
24	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 makes	obj
25	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 makes	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	show	present	a card bill			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spend	past · passive			month	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
3	pay	gerund		all		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Asset
4	mean	present	paying	no interest		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Topic
5	pay	gerund		part		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Asset
6	make	present	paying	the debt		tree rules
7	grow	infinitive	the debt not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:008-borrowing-and-debt.lesson:12.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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