--- title: The minimum payment barely covers the interest, so paying only the m… — Borrowing and debt · tree and pragmatics description: The minimum payment barely covers the interest, so paying only the minimum keeps a debt going for years. Who acts: minimum payment, paying, debt. A sentence of the lesson «Borrowing and debt» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/13/) [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/) / [Borrowing and debt](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/) / 13 # Borrowing and debt, sentence 13 The minimum payment barely covers the interest, so paying only the minimum keeps a debt going for years. **Who acts:** minimum payment, paying, debt · **What happens:** cover, pay, keep, go · **To what, where:** interest, minimum, debt This is a sentence of the lesson «Borrowing and debt» 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 (minimum payment, paying, debt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:008-borrowing-and-debt.lesson:13 # text = The minimum payment barely covers the interest, so paying only the minimum keeps a debt going for years. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 008-borrowing-and-debt.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 ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 minimum minimum ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 payment payment NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 barely barely ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 covers cover VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 10 paying pay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 csubj _ _ 11 only only ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 minimum minimum NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nsubj 14 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 debt debt NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cover** | present | the minimum payment | the interest | | | | barely *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme interest=Destination | | 2 | **pay** | gerund | | the minimum | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minimum=Asset | | 3 | **keep** | present | paying | a debt | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | gerund | a debt *not said here* | | | | year | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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](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:008-borrowing-and-debt.lesson:13`. **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 ×3. **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: [Borrowing and debt, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/12/) - next →: [Borrowing and debt, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/)