Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 7
"Delinquent account" (US jargon) means a debt that has not been paid on time.
Who acts: Delinquent account · What happens: mean, not pay · To what, where: debt
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 (Delinquent account), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 account | punct |
| 2 | Delinquent | delinquent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 account | amod |
| 3 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 account | punct |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 jargon | punct |
| 6 | US | US | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 jargon | compound |
| 7 | jargon | jargon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 account | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 jargon | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 debt | det |
| 11 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 paid | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 paid | advmod |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 paid | aux:pass |
| 16 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 debt | acl:relcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 paid | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Delinquent account | a debt | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not pay | present · perfect · passive | a debt | time | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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:7.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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