Debt, loans, credit cards and interest, sentence 12
Some debt can help, like a mortgage for a home; debt for things you can't afford, like an unpaid credit card, can trap people.
Who acts: debt, you · What happens: help, not afford, trap · To what, where: things, people
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 (debt, you), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 debt | det |
| 2 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mortgage | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 mortgage | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mortgage | det |
| 8 | mortgage | mortgage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 home | det |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mortgage | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 debt | punct |
| 13 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 trap | nsubj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 things | case |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 debt | nmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 afford | nsubj |
| 17 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 afford | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 afford | advmod |
| 19 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 things | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 card | punct |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 card | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 card | det |
| 23 | unpaid | unpaid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 card | amod |
| 24 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 card | compound |
| 25 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 afford | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 trap | punct |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 trap | aux |
| 28 | trap | trap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 help | parataxis |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 trap | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | can | some debt | like a mortgage for a home | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not afford | can | you | things not said here | like a unpaid credit card | tree rules | |||
| 3 | trap | can | debt for things | people | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
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:12.
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 ×1, 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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