Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax, sentence 0
A bill is a letter or message asking a family to pay for something it uses: electricity and gas for light and heat, water from the tap, the phone, and the home itself.
Who acts: bill, letter, family · What happens: be, ask, pay, use · To what, where: letter, family
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» of the money 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 (bill, letter, family), 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 bill | det |
| 2 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 letter | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 letter | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 letter | det |
| 5 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 message | cc |
| 7 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 letter | conj |
| 8 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 letter | acl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 family | det |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asking | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pay | mark |
| 12 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asking | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 something | case |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 pay | obl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 uses | nsubj |
| 16 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 something | acl:relcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 electricity | punct |
| 18 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 something | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gas | cc |
| 20 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 electricity | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 light | case |
| 22 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 electricity | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 heat | cc |
| 24 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 light | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 water | punct |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 electricity | conj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 tap | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tap | det |
| 29 | tap | tap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 water | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 phone | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 phone | det |
| 32 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 letter | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 home | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 home | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 home | det |
| 36 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 phone | conj |
| 37 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 36 home | nmod:unmarked |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 letter | 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 | is a | present | a bill | a letter or message and the phone and the home bill | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | a letter or message and the phone and the home bill not said here | a family | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent family=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pay not said to happen | to-infinitive | a family not said here | for something | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for something=Theme | ||||
| 4 | use | present | bill | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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:money:021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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