Debt, loans, credit cards and interest, sentence 1
Borrowing usually has a price called interest: Mum borrows £1,000 from the bank for a new boiler and pays back £1,100, so the boiler really costs her an extra £100.
Who acts: Borrowing, price, Mum, boiler · What happens: have, call, borrow, pay back, cost · To what, where: price, interest, bank, Mum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Debt, loans, credit cards and interest» 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 (Borrowing, price, Mum, boiler), 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 | Borrowing | borrowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 has | advmod |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 price | det |
| 5 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 price | acl |
| 7 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 borrows | punct |
| 9 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 borrows | nsubj |
| 10 | borrows | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 11 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 10 borrows | obj |
| 12 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 £ | nummod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 bank | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bank | det |
| 15 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 borrows | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 boiler | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 boiler | det |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 boiler | amod |
| 19 | boiler | boiler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 borrows | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pays | cc |
| 21 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 borrows | conj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 pays | advmod |
| 23 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 21 pays | obj |
| 24 | 1,100 | 1,100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 £ | nummod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 costs | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 costs | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 boiler | det |
| 28 | boiler | boiler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 costs | nsubj |
| 29 | really | really | ADV | _ | 30 costs | advmod |
| 30 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 pays | conj |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 costs | iobj |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 £ | det |
| 33 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 £ | amod |
| 34 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 30 costs | obj |
| 35 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 £ | nummod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Borrowing | a price | usually property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Patient | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a price not said here | interest | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | borrow | present | Mum | the bank | for a new boiler | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent £=Theme from bank=Source | |||
| 4 | pay back | present | Mum not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset | |||||
| 5 | cost | present | the boiler | Mum | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme she=Beneficiary £=Value |
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:024-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest.lesson:1.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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