Moving house and renting a home, sentence 11

An offer "subject to survey" means the buyer wants an expert to check the house first, and may lower the offer or pull out if problems are found.

Who acts: offer, buyer · What happens: mean, want, check, lower, pull out, find · To what, where: expert, house, offer, problems · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving house and renting a home» of the adult life 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 (offer, buyer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 offer	det
2	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 subject	punct
4	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 offer	appos
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 survey	case
6	survey	survey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 subject	obl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 subject	punct
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 buyer	det
10	buyer	buyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wants	nsubj
11	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 means	ccomp
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 expert	det
13	expert	expert	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wants	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 check	mark
15	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 expert	acl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 house	det
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 check	obj
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 check	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lower	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lower	cc
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 lower	aux
22	lower	lower	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 wants	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 offer	det
24	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lower	obj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 pull	cc
26	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 lower	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 pull	compound:prt
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 found	mark
29	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 found	nsubj:pass
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 found	aux:pass
31	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 pull	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a offer			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	present	the buyer	a expert		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot expert=Theme
3	check	to-infinitive	the buyer not said here	the house	first property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
4	lower	may	the buyer not said here	the offer		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme
5	pull out	infinitive	the buyer not said here			vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	find a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		problems		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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, 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:adult-life:010-moving-house-and-renting-a-home.lesson:11.

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): 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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