Borrowing and debt, sentence 13
The minimum payment barely covers the interest, so paying only the minimum keeps a debt going for years.
Who acts: minimum payment, paying, debt · What happens: cover, pay, keep, go · To what, where: interest, minimum, debt
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 (minimum payment, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 payment | det |
| 2 | minimum | minimum | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 payment | amod |
| 3 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covers | nsubj |
| 4 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 5 covers | advmod |
| 5 | covers | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 interest | det |
| 7 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covers | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 paying | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 keeps | advmod |
| 10 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 keeps | csubj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 minimum | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 minimum | det |
| 13 | minimum | minimum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 paying | obj |
| 14 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 covers | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 debt | det |
| 16 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keeps | obj |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 keeps | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 years | case |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 going | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 covers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present | the minimum payment | the interest | barely property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme interest=Destination | |||
| 2 | pay | gerund | the minimum | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minimum=Asset | |||||
| 3 | keep | present | paying | a debt | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | gerund | a debt not said here | year | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:13.
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 ×3. 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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