Moving house and renting a home, sentence 9
An estate agent helps sell houses, and viewings are when people who might buy come to look round.
Who acts: estate agent, people, viewings · What happens: help, sell, buy, be, look round · To what, where: houses
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, people, viewings), 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 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sell | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 buy | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 people | cc |
| 9 | viewings | viewing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 come | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | cop |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 come | advmod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 come | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 buy | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 buy | aux |
| 15 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 people | acl:relcl |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 helps | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 look | mark |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 come | xcomp |
| 19 | round | round | ADV | _ | 18 look | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 helps | 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 | 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 | houses | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | buy | might | people | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | viewings | come property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look round | to-infinitive | viewings not said here | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:9.
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): no change. 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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