Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax, sentence 9
A mortgage is a loan from a bank to buy a home, paid back every month for many years, often 25; because of interest, the total paid back is more than the house cost.
Who acts: mortgage, loan, total · What happens: be, buy, pay back · To what, where: loan, bank, home, 25
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 (mortgage, loan, total), 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 mortgage | det |
| 2 | mortgage | mortgage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loan | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 loan | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 loan | det |
| 5 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 bank | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bank | det |
| 8 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loan | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 buy | mark |
| 10 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 loan | acl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 home | det |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 buy | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 loan | punct |
| 14 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 loan | acl |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 paid | advmod |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 month | det |
| 17 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 paid | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 years | amod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 paid | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 25 | punct |
| 22 | often | often | ADV | _ | 23 25 | advmod |
| 23 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 paid | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 more | punct |
| 25 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 27 interest | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 because | fixed |
| 27 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 more | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 interest | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 total | det |
| 30 | total | total | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 more | nsubj |
| 31 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 total | acl:relcl |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 paid | advmod |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 more | cop |
| 34 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 loan | parataxis |
| 35 | than | than | ADP | _ | 38 cost | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 cost | det |
| 37 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 cost | compound |
| 38 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 more | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 loan | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a mortgage | a loan | a bank | tree rules | |||
| 2 | buy | to-infinitive | a home | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pay back | participle | a loan not said here | 25 | month; year | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | pay back | past | the total not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | the total | because interest; than the house cost; more 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:money:021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.lesson:9.
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 ×2, 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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