Borrowing and debt, sentence 20
Bailiffs can collect money owed only after a court decision and many warnings, under strict rules, and cannot take essentials.
Who acts: Bailiffs · What happens: collect, owe, not take · To what, where: money, essentials
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 (Bailiffs), 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 | Bailiffs | bailiff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 collect | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 collect | aux |
| 3 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collect | obj |
| 5 | owed | owe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 money | acl |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 owed | advmod |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 decision | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 decision | det |
| 9 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 decision | compound |
| 10 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 owed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 warnings | cc |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 warnings | amod |
| 13 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 decision | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rules | punct |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 rules | case |
| 16 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rules | amod |
| 17 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 decision | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 take | cc |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 take | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 take | advmod |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 collect | conj |
| 23 | essentials | essential | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 take | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 collect | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | can | Bailiffs | money | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | owe | participle | money not said here | after a court decision and many warnings and strict rules | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not take | can | Bailiffs not said here | essentials | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent essential=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:20.
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): no change. 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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