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title: Some lenders charge huge interest, so £200 borrowed can grow to £400… — Debt, loans, credit cards and interest · tree and pragmatics
description: Some lenders charge huge interest, so £200 borrowed can grow to £400 owed; a loan shark is someone who lends illegally at huge cost. Who acts: lenders, £ 200, loan shark. A sentence of the lesson «Debt, loans, credit cards and interest» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Debt, loans, credit cards and interest, sentence 11

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Some lenders charge huge interest, so £200 borrowed can grow to £400 owed; a loan shark is someone who lends illegally at huge cost.

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**Who acts:** lenders, £ 200, loan shark · **What happens:** charge, borrow, grow, owe, be, lend · **To what, where:** huge interest, someone, huge cost

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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 (lenders, £ 200, loan shark), 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:11
# text = Some lenders charge huge interest, so £200 borrowed can grow to £400 owed; a loan shark is someone who lends illegally at huge cost.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	lenders	lender	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	charge	charge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	£	£	SYM	$	_	9	compound	_	_
9	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
10	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	£	£	SYM	$	_	12	obl	_	_
15	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
16	owed	owe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	loan	loan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lends	lend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	illegally	illegally	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **charge** | present | some lenders | huge interest |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location interest=Theme |
| 2 | **borrow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | can | £ 200 |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **owe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a loan shark | someone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lend** | present |  |  |  | huge cost |  | illegally *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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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**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): R7-rel-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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