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title: Some debt can help, like a mortgage for a home; debt for things you… — Debt, loans, credit cards and interest · tree and pragmatics
description: Some debt can help, like a mortgage for a home; debt for things you can't afford, like an unpaid credit card, can trap people. Who acts: debt, you. A sentence of the lesson «Debt, loans, credit cards and interest» of the money course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Debt, loans, credit cards and interest, sentence 12

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Some debt can help, like a mortgage for a home; debt for things you can't afford, like an unpaid credit card, can trap people.

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**Who acts:** debt, you · **What happens:** help, not afford, trap · **To what, where:** things, people

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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 (debt, you), 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:12
# text = Some debt can help, like a mortgage for a home; debt for things you can't afford, like an unpaid credit card, can trap people.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mortgage	mortgage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	unpaid	unpaid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	trap	trap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **help** | can | some debt |  |  |  |  | like a mortgage for a home | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **afford** | can | you | things *not said here* |  |  |  | like a unpaid credit card | tree rules |
| 3 | **trap** | can | debt for things | people |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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**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 ×1, 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.

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