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title: Paying a bill late can add a late fee: a £60 bill with a £15 fee bec… — Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, cou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Paying a bill late can add a late fee: a £60 bill with a £15 fee becomes £75. Who acts: Paying, £ bill. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax, sentence 15

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Paying a bill late can add a late fee: a £60 bill with a £15 fee becomes £75.

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**Who acts:** Paying, £ bill · **What happens:** pay, add, become · **To what, where:** bill, late fee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Paying, £ bill), 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:15
# text = Paying a bill late can add a late fee: a £60 bill with a £15 fee becomes £75.
# 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	Paying	pay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fee	fee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	£	£	SYM	$	_	14	compound	_	_
13	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
14	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	£	£	SYM	$	_	19	compound	_	_
18	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
19	fee	fee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
21	£	£	SYM	$	_	20	xcomp	_	_
22	75	75	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **pay** | gerund |  | a bill |  |  |  | late *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Asset |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | can | Paying | a late fee |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fee=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | present | a £ bill with a £ fee |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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:15`.

**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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