Debt, loans, credit cards and interest, sentence 9
Paying a credit card in full every month means paying no interest: £200 spent and £200 paid back costs £0 extra.
Who acts: Paying · What happens: pay, mean, spend, pay back, cost · To what, where: credit card, full, interest · 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 (Paying), 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 | Paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 means | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 card | det |
| 3 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 card | compound |
| 4 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paying | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 full | case |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Paying | obl |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 month | det |
| 8 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Paying | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 spent | parataxis |
| 10 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 means | ccomp |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 interest | det |
| 12 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 paying | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 £ | punct |
| 14 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 12 interest | appos |
| 15 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 £ | nummod |
| 16 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 £ | cc |
| 18 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 20 paid | dep |
| 19 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 £ | nummod |
| 20 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 spent | advcl |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 paid | advmod |
| 22 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 paid | ccomp |
| 23 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 22 costs | obj |
| 24 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 £ | nummod |
| 25 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 £ | amod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | gerund | a credit card | full | month | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Asset | |||
| 2 | mean | present | Paying | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pay | gerund | no interest | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Asset | |||||
| 4 | spend | past | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | pay back | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | cost | present | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=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: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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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