--- title: A final demand is a warning that a bill is very overdue and stronger… — Borrowing and debt · tree and pragmatics description: A final demand is a warning that a bill is very overdue and stronger action will follow, so acting early is easier. Who acts: final demand, bill, acting. 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 eve --- [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/19/) [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/) / 19 # Borrowing and debt, sentence 19 A final demand is a warning that a bill is very overdue and stronger action will follow, so acting early is easier. **Who acts:** final demand, bill, acting · **What happens:** be, follow, act · **To what, where:** warning 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 (final demand, bill, acting), 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:19 # text = A final demand is a warning that a bill is very overdue and stronger action will follow, so acting early is easier. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 final final ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 demand demand NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 overdue overdue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 acl:relcl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 amod _ _ 15 action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 20 acting act VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 csubj _ _ 21 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 advcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17: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 | a final demand | a warning | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | a bill | a warning *not said here* | | | | overdue *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **follow** | future | a final demand *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **act** | gerund | | | | | | early *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | acting | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | 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:19`. **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): 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: [Borrowing and debt, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/18/) - next →: [Borrowing and debt, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/)