Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 1
A bank says "outstanding balance" for money you still owe, and "delinquent account" for a debt not paid on time.
Who acts: bank, you · What happens: say, owe, not pay · To what, where: outstanding balance, money, debt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy» of the euphemisms 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 (bank, you), 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 | 2 bank | det |
| 2 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 balance | punct |
| 5 | outstanding | outstanding | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 balance | amod |
| 6 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 balance | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 money | case |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 balance | nmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 owe | nsubj |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 owe | advmod |
| 12 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 money | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 account | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 account | cc |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 account | punct |
| 16 | delinquent | delinquent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 account | amod |
| 17 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 balance | conj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 account | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 debt | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 debt | det |
| 21 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 account | nmod |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 paid | advmod |
| 23 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 debt | acl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 paid | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a bank | outstanding balance and delinquent account for a debt | for money | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent balance=Topic | |||
| 2 | owe | present | you | money not said here | still | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=Theme | |||
| 3 | not pay | participle | a debt not said here | time | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:euphemisms:020-debt-and-jobs.lesson:1.
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 ×1, 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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