--- title: Bailiffs can collect money owed only after a court decision and many… — Borrowing and debt · tree and pragmatics description: Bailiffs can collect money owed only after a court decision and many warnings, under strict rules, and cannot take essentials. Who acts: Bailiffs. 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 clau --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Borrowing and debt, sentence 20 Bailiffs can collect money owed only after a court decision and many warnings, under strict rules, and cannot take essentials. **Who acts:** Bailiffs · **What happens:** collect, owe, not take · **To what, where:** money, essentials 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 (Bailiffs), 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:20 # text = Bailiffs can collect money owed only after a court decision and many warnings, under strict rules, and cannot take essentials. # 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): no change 1 Bailiffs bailiff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 collect collect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 owed owe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 decision decision NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 warnings warning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 under under ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 strict strict ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 23 essentials essential NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **collect** | can | Bailiffs | money | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | | 2 | **owe** | participle | | money *not said here* | | | after a court decision and many warnings and strict rules | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **take** | can | Bailiffs *not said here* | essentials | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent essential=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:20`. **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/). - ← previous: [Borrowing and debt, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/19/) - next →: [Borrowing and debt, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/)