Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 36

Families who own a house usually pay the bank back a bit every month; when that payment goes up, there's less for extras like holidays.

Who acts: Families, payment · What happens: own, pay back, go up, be · To what, where: house, bank

This is a sentence of the lesson «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» of the everyday 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 (Families, payment), 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	Families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pay	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 own	nsubj
3	own	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Families	acl:relcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 own	obj
6	usually	usually	ADV	_	7 pay	advmod
7	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bank	det
9	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	7 pay	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bit	det
12	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	obl:unmarked
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 month	det
14	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pay	obl:unmarked
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 pay	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 goes	advmod
17	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 payment	det
18	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 goes	nsubj
19	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 's	advcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 goes	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 's	punct
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 's	expl
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 less	cop
24	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 pay	parataxis
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 extras	case
26	extras	extra	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 less	obl
27	like	like	ADP	_	28 holidays	case
28	holidays	holiday	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 extras	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pay	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	own	present	Families	a house			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot house=Theme
2	pay back	present	Families	the bank	month	a bit obl:unmarked; usually property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Asset
3	go up	present	that payment				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is	present				for extras like holidays; less property	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:everyday:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:36.

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. 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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