Moving house and renting a home, sentence 8
A "For Sale" board means the family has decided to sell the house, and selling usually takes months, not days.
Who acts: Sale board, family · What happens: mean, decide, sell, take · To what, where: house · 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 (Sale board, family), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 board | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sale | punct |
| 3 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 Sale | case |
| 4 | Sale | sale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 board | compound |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sale | punct |
| 6 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 family | det |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 decided | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 decided | aux |
| 11 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 means | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sell | mark |
| 13 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 decided | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sell | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 takes | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 takes | cc |
| 18 | selling | sell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 takes | nsubj |
| 19 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 20 takes | advmod |
| 20 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | conj |
| 21 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 takes | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 days | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 days | advmod |
| 24 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 selling | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
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 | mean | present | a Sale board | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | decide | present · perfect | the family | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sell not said to happen | to-infinitive | the family not said here | the house | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sell | gerund | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | take | present | month | usually property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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, 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:8.
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): R8-pos-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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