--- title: Bills are regular payments for electricity, gas, water, the internet… — Looking after yourself and a home · tree and pragmatics description: Bills are regular payments for electricity, gas, water, the internet, phones and council tax; paid late, they bring extra charges and services can be cut off. Who acts: Bills. A sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Looking after yourself and a home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/) / 10 # Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 10 Bills are regular payments for electricity, gas, water, the internet, phones and council tax; paid late, they bring extra charges and services can be cut off. **Who acts:** Bills · **What happens:** be, pay, bring, cut off · **To what, where:** regular payments, council tax, extra charges, services This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life 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 (Bills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:10 # text = Bills are regular payments for electricity, gas, water, the internet, phones and council tax; paid late, they bring extra charges and services can be cut off. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Bills bill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 payments payment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 internet internet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 phones phone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 tax tax NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 20 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 21 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 bring bring VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 charges charge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 services service NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 32 off off ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Bills | regular payments | | | | for electricity and gas and water and the internet and phones and council tax | tree rules | | 2 | **pay** | participle | | council tax *not said here* | | | | late *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bring** | present | bills *= bill* | extra charges | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | | 4 | **cut off** | can · passive | | services | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:10`. **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. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Looking after yourself and a home, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/9/) - next →: [Looking after yourself and a home, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/)