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title: A credit score is a number showing how well someone pays back debts;… — Debt, loans, credit cards and interest · tree and pragmatics
description: A credit score is a number showing how well someone pays back debts; paying on time every month keeps it good and makes borrowing easier later. Who acts: credit score, number, someone, paying. A sentence of the lesson «Debt, loans, credit cards and interest» of the money course of Mova's primary sch
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# Debt, loans, credit cards and interest, sentence 15

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A credit score is a number showing how well someone pays back debts; paying on time every month keeps it good and makes borrowing easier later.

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**Who acts:** credit score, number, someone, paying · **What happens:** be, show, pay back, pay, keep, make · **To what, where:** number, debts, debt · **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 (credit score, number, someone, paying), 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:15
# text = A credit score is a number showing how well someone pays back debts; paying on time every month keeps it good and makes borrowing easier later.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
10	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	back	back	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	debts	debt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl:unmarked
20	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	borrowing	borrow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
26	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	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 credit score | a number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | gerund | a number *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pay back** | present | someone | debts |  |  |  | well *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset |
| 4 | **pay** | gerund |  |  |  |  | month; time |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **keep** | present | paying | debt |  |  |  | good *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | present | paying *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **borrow** | gerund | paying *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «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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**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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