Borrowing and debt, sentence 16
A payday loan is a small short-term loan with very high interest, and people can get trapped borrowing again to repay it.
Who acts: payday loan · What happens: be, trap, borrow, repay · To what, where: small term loan, people, interest
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 (payday loan), 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 | 3 loan | det |
| 2 | payday | payday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loan | compound |
| 3 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loan | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 loan | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 loan | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 loan | amod |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 term | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 short | punct |
| 9 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loan | compound |
| 10 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 interest | case |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 high | advmod |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 interest | amod |
| 14 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loan | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 trapped | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 trapped | cc |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 trapped | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 trapped | aux |
| 19 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 trapped | aux:pass |
| 20 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 loan | conj |
| 21 | borrowing | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 trapped | xcomp |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 borrowing | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 repay | mark |
| 24 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 borrowing | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 repay | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 loan | 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 | a payday loan | a small term loan | with high interest | tree rules | |||
| 2 | trap | can · passive | people | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | borrow | gerund | again | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | repay | to-infinitive | interest | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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:16.
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): 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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