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title: Borrowing usually has a price called interest: Mum borrows £1,000 fr… — Debt, loans, credit cards and interest · tree and pragmatics
description: Borrowing usually has a price called interest: Mum borrows £1,000 from the bank for a new boiler and pays back £1,100, so the boiler really costs her an extra £100. Who acts: Borrowing, price, Mum, boiler. A sentence of the lesson «Debt, loans, credit cards and interest» of the money course of Mova'
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# Debt, loans, credit cards and interest, sentence 1

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Borrowing usually has a price called interest: Mum borrows £1,000 from the bank for a new boiler and pays back £1,100, so the boiler really costs her an extra £100.

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**Who acts:** Borrowing, price, Mum, boiler · **What happens:** have, call, borrow, pay back, cost · **To what, where:** price, interest, bank, Mum · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Debt, loans, credit cards and interest» 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 (Borrowing, price, Mum, boiler), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:024-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest.lesson:1
# text = Borrowing usually has a price called interest: Mum borrows £1,000 from the bank for a new boiler and pays back £1,100, so the boiler really costs her an extra £100.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 024-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Borrowing	borrowing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
2	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	borrows	borrow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
11	£	£	SYM	$	_	10	obj	_	_
12	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	boiler	boiler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
22	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
23	£	£	SYM	$	_	21	obj	_	_
24	1,100	1,100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	boiler	boiler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	really	really	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	costs	cost	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	iobj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	£	£	SYM	$	_	30	obj	_	_
35	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | Borrowing | a price |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a price *not said here* | interest |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **borrow** | present | Mum |  |  | the bank |  | for a new boiler | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent £=Theme from bank=Source |
| 4 | **pay back** | present | Mum *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset |
| 5 | **cost** | present | the boiler |  | Mum |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme she=Beneficiary £=Value |

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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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**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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