What a bank does with your money and why banks lend, sentence 8

In 2008 some big banks had lent to people who could not pay back and nearly failed; governments stepped in with bailouts, and people still argue about whether that was right.

Who acts: people, governments, that · What happens: lend, not pay back, fail, step in, argue, be · To what, where: people, 2008

This is a sentence of the lesson «What a bank does with your money and why banks lend» 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 (people, governments, that), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 2008	case
2	2008	2008	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 lent	obl
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 banks	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 banks	amod
5	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lent	aux
7	lent	lend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lent	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 pay	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 pay	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 pay	advmod
13	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 people	acl:relcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 pay	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 failed	cc
16	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	17 failed	advmod
17	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pay	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 stepped	punct
19	governments	government	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stepped	nsubj
20	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lent	conj
21	in	in	PART	_	20 stepped	compound:prt
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 bailouts	case
23	bailouts	bailout	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stepped	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 argue	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 argue	cc
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 argue	nsubj
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 argue	advmod
28	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lent	parataxis
29	about	about	SCONJ	_	33 right	mark
30	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	33 right	mark
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 right	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 right	cop
33	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 argue	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend	past · perfect		people	2008			vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient
2	not pay back	could	people					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	fail	past	people not said here				nearly property	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	step in	past	governments				with bailouts	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	argue speech: disagree	present	people			still		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	that				right property	tree rules

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:028-what-a-bank-does-with-your-money.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): 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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