Lending, sharing, charity and tipping, sentence 5

To lend is to let someone use your money for a while; an IOU, short for "I owe you", is a note saying someone owes money.

Who acts: note, IOU, someone · What happens: lend, be, use, owe, say · To what, where: money, you, note · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Lending, sharing, charity and tipping» 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 (note, IOU, someone), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 lend	mark
2	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	csubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 let	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 let	mark
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 let	obj
7	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 money	nmod:poss
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 while	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 while	det
12	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 IOU	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 IOU	det
15	IOU	iou	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 note	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 short	punct
17	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 IOU	amod
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 owe	mark
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 owe	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 owe	nsubj
21	owe	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 short	advcl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 owe	obj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 owe	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 note	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 note	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 note	det
27	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	parataxis
28	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 note	acl
29	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 owes	nsubj
30	owes	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 saying	ccomp
31	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 owes	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 note	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lend	to-infinitive					vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	is	present				let property	tree rules
3	use	infinitive		your money	while		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
4	owe in a quote	present	a note = note	you			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	is a	present	a IOU	a note			tree rules
6	say speech: assert	gerund	a note not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	owe	present	someone	money			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=Theme

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:039-lending-sharing-charity-and-tipping.lesson:5.

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): R6-punct-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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