Borrowing and debt, sentence 15
Interest is the price of using someone else's money, and a small charge every year adds up to a lot over many years.
Who acts: Interest, price, small charge · What happens: be, use, add up · To what, where: price, money
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 (Interest, price, small charge), 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 | Interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 price | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 price | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 price | det |
| 4 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 using | mark |
| 6 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 price | acl |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 money | nmod:poss |
| 8 | else | else | ADV | _ | 7 someone | advmod |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 someone | case |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 using | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 adds | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 adds | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 charge | det |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 charge | amod |
| 15 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 adds | nsubj |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 charge | nmod |
| 18 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 price | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 adds | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 lot | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lot | det |
| 22 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 adds | obl |
| 23 | over | over | ADV | _ | 24 many | advmod |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 years | amod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lot | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 price | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Interest | the price | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | gerund | the price not said here | someone's money | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 3 | add up speech: assert | present | a small charge every year | to a lot many years | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to lot=Co-Patient |
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:15.
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. 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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