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title: Most bills leave the bank account by themselves, by direct debit, so… — Paying for a home and the bills · tree and pragmatics
description: Most bills leave the bank account by themselves, by direct debit, so the money seems to vanish without anyone paying at a till. Who acts: Most bills, 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 dependency tree and the p
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# Paying for a home and the bills, sentence 4

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Most bills leave the bank account by themselves, by direct debit, so the money seems to vanish without anyone paying at a till.

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**Who acts:** Most bills, money · **What happens:** leave, seem, vanish, pay · **To what, where:** bank account, till

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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 (Most bills, 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:4
# text = Most bills leave the bank account by themselves, by direct debit, so the money seems to vanish without anyone paying at a till.
# 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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	bills	bill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	debit	debit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	vanish	vanish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	without	without	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obl	_	_
22	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	till	till	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **leave** | present | Most bills | the bank account |  |  |  | by bills *= bill*; by direct debit | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent account=Theme by themselves=Location |
| 2 | **seem** | present | the money |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **vanish** | to-infinitive | the money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without anyone | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pay** | gerund |  |  |  | a till |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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