--- title: Some debt helps, like a mortgage that gives a family a home; some de… — Debt, loans, credit cards and interest · tree and pragmatics description: Some debt helps, like a mortgage that gives a family a home; some debt traps people, like a credit card that is never paid off or a loan from a dodgy website that doubles what you owe. Who acts: debt, mortgage, dodgy website, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (debt, mortgage, dodgy website, 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:3 # text = Some debt helps, like a mortgage that gives a family a home; some debt traps people, like a credit card that is never paid off or a loan from a dodgy website that doubles what you owe. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 debt debt NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 mortgage mortgage NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 iobj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 debt debt NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 traps trap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 credit credit NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 26 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 loan loan NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 dodgy dodgy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 website website NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 doubles double VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 37 obj _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 owe owe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | some debt | | | | | like a mortgage | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give** | present | a mortgage | a home | a family | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent family=Recipient home=Theme | | 3 | **trap** | present | some debt | people | | | | like a credit card or a loan from a dodgy website | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 4 | **not** **pay off** | present · passive | | a credit card or a loan from a dodgy website | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | | 5 | **double** | present | a dodgy website | a dodgy website | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 6 | **owe** | present | you | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:024-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest.lesson:3`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Debt, loans, credit cards and interest, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest/2/) - next →: [Debt, loans, credit cards and interest, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/24-debt-loans-credit-cards-and-interest/)