Borrowing and debt, sentence 19
A final demand is a warning that a bill is very overdue and stronger action will follow, so acting early is easier.
Who acts: final demand, bill, acting · What happens: be, follow, act · To what, where: warning
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 (final demand, bill, acting), 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 demand | det |
| 2 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 demand | amod |
| 3 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 warning | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 warning | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 warning | det |
| 6 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 follow | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bill | det |
| 9 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overdue | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 overdue | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 overdue | advmod |
| 12 | overdue | overdue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 warning | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 action | cc |
| 14 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 action | amod |
| 15 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overdue | conj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 follow | aux |
| 17 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 warning | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 acting | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 easier | advmod |
| 20 | acting | act | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 easier | csubj |
| 21 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 acting | advmod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 easier | cop |
| 23 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 follow | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 warning | 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 final demand | a warning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a bill | a warning not said here | overdue property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | follow | future | a final demand not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | act | gerund | early property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | acting | easy property | tree rules |
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:19.
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): R6-punct-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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