Borrowing and debt, sentence 6

Example: in a flat in Dublin, a letter arrives with red writing across the top: "Final demand." Dad goes pale, then picks up the phone and rings a free debt charity.

Who acts: letter, Dad · What happens: arrive, go, pick up, ring · To what, where: Final demand, flat, phone, free debt charity

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 (letter, Dad), 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	Example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 arrives	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 flat	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flat	det
5	flat	flat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arrives	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Dublin	case
7	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 flat	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flat	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 letter	det
10	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arrives	nsubj
11	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Example	appos
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 writing	case
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 writing	amod
14	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arrives	obl
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 top	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 top	det
17	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 writing	nmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 demand	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 demand	punct
20	Final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 demand	amod
21	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arrives	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 arrives	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 goes	punct
24	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 goes	nsubj
25	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 arrives	conj
26	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 goes	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 picks	punct
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 picks	advmod
29	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 goes	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 picks	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 phone	det
32	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 picks	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 rings	cc
34	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 picks	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 charity	det
36	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 charity	amod
37	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 charity	compound
38	charity	charity	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rings	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Example	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	present	a letter	Final demand	a flat in Dublin		with red writing across the top	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	present	Dad				pale property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pick up	present	Dad not said here	the phone		then		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Topic
4	ring	present	Dad not said here	a free debt charity				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location charity=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:6.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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