Taxes and the government's budget, sentence 16

The national debt is all the money a government has borrowed and still owes, and it must pay interest on it, just like a family with a loan.

Who acts: national debt, government · What happens: be, borrow, owe, pay · To what, where: money, interest

This is a sentence of the lesson «Taxes and the government's budget» 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 (national debt, government), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 debt	det
2	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 debt	amod
3	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 money	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 money	cop
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 money	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 money	det
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 government	det
9	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 borrowed	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 borrowed	aux
11	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 money	acl:relcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 owes	cc
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 owes	advmod
14	owes	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 borrowed	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pay	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 pay	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pay	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 pay	aux
19	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 owes	conj
20	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pay	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pay	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 family	punct
24	just	just	ADV	_	27 family	advmod
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 family	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 family	det
27	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pay	obl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 loan	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 loan	det
30	loan	loan	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 family	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 money	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the national debt	all money				tree rules
2	borrow	present · perfect	a government	all money not said here				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	owe	present	a government not said here			still		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	pay	must	government	interest	money		like a family with a loan	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Asset

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:036-taxes-and-the-governments-budget.lesson:16.

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): no change. 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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