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title: A phone contract is an agreement to pay for a set time: £25 a month… — Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, cou… · tree and pragmatics
description: A phone contract is an agreement to pay for a set time: £25 a month for 24 months is 24 × £25 = £600 in total. Who acts: phone contract. A sentence of the lesson «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax, sentence 12

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A phone contract is an agreement to pay for a set time: £25 a month for 24 months is 24 × £25 = £600 in total.

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**Who acts:** phone contract · **What happens:** be, pay · **To what, where:** agreement

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» of the money 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 (phone contract), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.lesson:12
# text = A phone contract is an agreement to pay for a set time: £25 a month for 24 months is 24 × £25 = £600 in total.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.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	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	contract	contract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	£	£	SYM	$	_	6	parataxis	_	_
15	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	×	×	SYM	SYM	Number=Plur	14	parataxis	_	_
24	£	£	SYM	$	_	23	acl:relcl	_	_
25	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
26	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	27	case	_	_
27	£	£	SYM	$	_	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	600	600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a phone contract | a agreement |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | time |  | 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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**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:money:021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.lesson:12`.

**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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