--- title: In 2008 some big banks had lent to people who could not pay back and… — What a bank does with your money and why banks l… · tree and pragmatics description: In 2008 some big banks had lent to people who could not pay back and nearly failed; governments stepped in with bailouts, and people still argue about whether that was right. Who acts: people, governments, that. 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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 (people, governments, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:money:028-what-a-bank-does-with-your-money.lesson:8 # text = In 2008 some big banks had lent to people who could not pay back and nearly failed; governments stepped in with bailouts, and people still argue about whether that was right. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = money # lesson = 028-what-a-bank-does-with-your-money.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2008 2008 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 3 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 lent lend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 11 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 back back ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 governments government NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 in in PART RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 bailouts bailout NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 still still ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 29 about about SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 advcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lend** | past · perfect | | | people | 2008 | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **pay back** | could | people | | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fail** | past | people *not said here* | | | | | nearly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **step in** | past | governments | | | | | with bailouts | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | people | | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | that | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | 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. 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