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title: creditor — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «creditor» in the school dictionary: A person or firm to whom money is owed, who is waiting to be paid back. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# creditor

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**Who acts:** person, creditor, shopkeeper · **What happens:** owe, wait, pay back, ask, be, want · **To what, where:** money, creditor

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«creditor» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [creditor in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/creditor.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A person or firm to whom money is owed, who is waiting to be paid back.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:creditor:m1:1
# text = A person or firm to whom money is owed, who is waiting to be paid back.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	firm	firm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nmod	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	owed	owe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **owe** | present · passive |  | money |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | present · progressive | a person or firm |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pay back** | to-infinitive · passive | a person or firm *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» |

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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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The creditor asked for his money.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:creditor:x1:1
# text = The creditor asked for his money.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	creditor	creditor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the creditor |  |  |  |  | for creditor's money | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The shopkeeper was a creditor of the farmer.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:creditor:x2:1
# text = The shopkeeper was a creditor of the farmer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shopkeeper	shopkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	creditor	creditor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the shopkeeper | a creditor |  |  |  | of the farmer | tree rules |

## Example 3 {#x3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Every creditor wanted to be paid that day.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:creditor:x3:1
# text = Every creditor wanted to be paid that day.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	creditor	creditor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | every creditor |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | every creditor *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» |

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**Text:** the school dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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