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title: A direct debit lets a company take a bill from the bank account auto… — Paying for a home and the bills · tree and pragmatics
description: A direct debit lets a company take a bill from the bank account automatically, but there must be enough money in it on the day. Who acts: direct debit, company, enough money. A sentence of the lesson «Paying for a home and the bills» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Paying for a home and the bills, sentence 15

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A direct debit lets a company take a bill from the bank account automatically, but there must be enough money in it on the day.

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**Who acts:** direct debit, company, enough money · **What happens:** let, take, be · **To what, where:** company, bill, bank account, debit

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Paying for a home and the bills» 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 (direct debit, company, enough money), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.lesson:15
# text = A direct debit lets a company take a bill from the bank account automatically, but there must be enough money in it on the day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	debit	debit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	automatically	automatically	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
20	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | a direct debit | a company |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | a company *not said here* | a bill |  | the bank account |  | automatically *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent bill=Theme from account=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **be** | must | enough money |  |  | debit; there | day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |

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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.

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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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