Debt, loans, credit cards and interest, sentence 8

A credit card lets you buy now and pay later; if you don't pay it all back, interest is added, so £300 can become £306 in a month.

Who acts: credit card, you, £ 300 · What happens: let, buy, pay, not pay back, add, become · To what, where: interest, £ 306

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 (credit card, you, £ 300), 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	3 card	det
2	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 card	compound
3	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lets	nsubj
4	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 buy	nsubj
6	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lets	xcomp
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 buy	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pay	cc
9	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 buy	conj
10	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 pay	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 added	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 pay	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 pay	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 pay	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 pay	advmod
16	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 added	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pay	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 it	det
19	back	back	ADV	_	16 pay	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pay	punct
21	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 added	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 added	aux:pass
23	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lets	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 become	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	29 become	advmod
26	£	£	SYM	_	27 300	compound
27	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 become	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 become	aux
29	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 added	advcl
30	£	£	SYM	_	31 306	compound
31	306	306	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 become	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 month	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 month	det
34	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 become	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lets	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	a credit card				tree rules
2	buy	infinitive	you		now		vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	pay	infinitive	you not said here			late property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not pay back a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	you	interest			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset
5	add speech: assert	present · passive		interest			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	become	can	£ 300	£ 306	month		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient 306=Result

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:8.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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