Soft words for hard things: money and poverty and work, firing and the economy, sentence 8
"Subprime borrower" means a borrower with a bad credit history: a record of not paying back borrowed money on time.
Who acts: Subprime borrower, record · What happens: mean, not pay back, borrow · To what, where: borrower, borrowed money
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 (Subprime borrower, record), 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 borrower | punct |
| 2 | Subprime | Subprime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 borrower | compound |
| 3 | borrower | borrower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 borrower | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 borrower | det |
| 7 | borrower | borrower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 history | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 history | det |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 history | amod |
| 11 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 history | compound |
| 12 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 borrower | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 record | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 record | det |
| 15 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 borrower | appos |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 paying | mark |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 paying | advmod |
| 18 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 record | acl |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 paying | compound:prt |
| 20 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 money | amod |
| 21 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 paying | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 paying | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | Subprime borrower | a borrower | with a bad credit history | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent borrower=Topic | |||
| 2 | not pay back | gerund | a record not said here | borrowed money | time | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | |||
| 3 | borrow | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «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:8.
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): 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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