Debt, loans, credit cards and interest, sentence 2
Picture Lucy borrowing £5 from her brother, who says, "Pay me back £6 or I'm telling Mum!": that extra £1 is interest, and on a fiver it is a lot, a whole fifth of what she borrowed.
Who acts: you, brother, interest, Mum · What happens: picture, borrow, say, pay back, tell, be · To what, where: Lucy, 6, brother, Mum, interest, lot · 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 (you, brother, interest, Mum), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Lucy | Lucy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 3 | borrowing | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Picture | xcomp |
| 4 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 3 borrowing | obj |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 £ | nummod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 brother | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 borrowing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 says | nsubj |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 brother | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Pay | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Pay | punct |
| 14 | Pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 says | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 Pay | iobj |
| 16 | back | back | ADP | _ | 14 Pay | compound:prt |
| 17 | £ | £ | ADV | _ | 18 6 | advmod |
| 18 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 Pay | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 telling | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 telling | nsubj |
| 21 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 telling | aux |
| 22 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 Pay | conj |
| 23 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 telling | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Pay | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Pay | punct |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 extra | punct |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 £ | nsubj |
| 28 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 £ | amod |
| 29 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 32 interest | nsubj |
| 30 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 £ | nummod |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 interest | cop |
| 32 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 interest | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 lot | cc |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 fiver | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 fiver | det |
| 37 | fiver | fiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 lot | obl |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 lot | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 lot | cop |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 lot | det |
| 41 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 interest | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 fifth | punct |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 fifth | det |
| 44 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 fifth | amod |
| 45 | fifth | fifth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 lot | appos |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 what | case |
| 47 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 fifth | nmod |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 borrowed | nsubj |
| 49 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 what | acl:relcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | Lucy | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent lucy=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | borrow | gerund | you not said here | from Lucy's brother | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent £=Theme from brother=Source | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | present | Lucy's brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | pay back in a quote | infinitive | 6 | Lucy's brother = brother | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient 6=Asset | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · progressive | Lucy's brother = brother | Mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | interest and a lot | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | is a | present | interest | a lot | a fiver | tree rules | |||
| 8 | borrow | past | Mum | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: 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:024-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest.lesson:2.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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