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title: Paying back £10 a week clears a £50 debt in £50 ÷ £10 = 5 weeks. — Debt, loans, credit cards and interest · tree and pragmatics
description: Paying back £10 a week clears a £50 debt in £50 ÷ £10 = 5 weeks. Who acts: Paying. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Debt, loans, credit cards and interest, sentence 6

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Paying back £10 a week clears a £50 debt in £50 ÷ £10 = 5 weeks.

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**Who acts:** Paying · **What happens:** pay back, clear · **To what, where:** £ debt

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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 (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:6
# text = Paying back £10 a week clears a £50 debt in £50 ÷ £10 = 5 weeks.
# 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 ×2
1	Paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod
3	£	£	SYM	$	_	1	obj	_	_
4	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	clears	clear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	£	£	SYM	$	_	11	compound	_	_
10	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
11	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	£	£	SYM	$	_	11	nmod	_	_
14	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	÷	÷	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
16	£	£	SYM	$	_	13	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
17	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
18	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	20	cc	_	_
19	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **pay back** | gerund |  |  |  |  | week |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset |
| 2 | **clear** | present | Paying | a £ debt |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent debt=Source |

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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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**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:6`.

**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 ×2. **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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