Borrowing and debt, sentence 3
Debt becomes a problem when the repayments are more than the family can afford.
Who acts: Debt, repayments, family · What happens: become, be, afford · To what, where: problem
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 (Debt, repayments, family), 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 | Debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 becomes | nsubj |
| 2 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 problem | det |
| 4 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 becomes | xcomp |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 more | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 repayments | det |
| 7 | repayments | repayment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 more | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 more | cop |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 problem | acl:relcl |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 afford | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 family | det |
| 12 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 afford | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 afford | aux |
| 14 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 more | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 becomes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | Debt | a problem | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the repayments | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | afford | can | the family | 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:3.
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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