Moving house and renting a home, sentence 2

An estate agent helps sell a house and shows people round; a survey checks it for problems; a mortgage from the bank pays for most of it.

Who acts: estate agent, survey, mortgage · What happens: help, sell, show, check, pay · To what, where: house, people

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 (estate agent, survey, mortgage), 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	3 agent	det
2	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 agent	compound
3	agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helps	nsubj
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 helps	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sell	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shows	cc
9	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 helps	conj
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shows	obj
11	round	round	ADV	_	9 shows	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 checks	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 survey	det
14	survey	survey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 checks	nsubj
15	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 helps	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 checks	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 problems	case
18	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 checks	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 pays	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mortgage	det
21	mortgage	mortgage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pays	nsubj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 bank	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bank	det
24	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mortgage	nmod
25	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 helps	parataxis
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 most	case
27	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 pays	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 most	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 helps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	help	present	a estate agent				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	sell	infinitive	a estate agent not said here	a house			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
3	show	present	a estate agent not said here		people	round property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
4	check	present	a survey	house		for problems	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme for problem=Attribute
5	pay	present	a mortgage from the bank			for most of house	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for most=Theme

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:2.

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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