Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 11

Renting means paying a landlord every month to live in a home that belongs to someone else; renters usually pay a deposit at the start and sign an agreement.

Who acts: Renting, home, renters · What happens: mean, pay, live, belong, sign · To what, where: landlord, home, deposit, start, agreement · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and 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 (Renting, home, renters), 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	Renting	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 landlord	det
5	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paying	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 month	det
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paying	obl:unmarked
8	to	to	PART	_	9 live	mark
9	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 paying	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 home	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 home	det
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 live	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 belongs	nsubj
14	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 home	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 someone	case
16	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 belongs	obl
17	else	else	ADV	_	16 someone	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 pay	punct
19	renters	renter	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pay	nsubj
20	usually	usually	ADV	_	21 pay	advmod
21	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 deposit	det
23	deposit	deposit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pay	obj
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 start	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 start	det
26	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pay	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sign	cc
28	sign	sign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 pay	conj
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 agreement	det
30	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sign	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Renting					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pay	gerund		a landlord		month		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landlord=Asset
3	live	to-infinitive			a home			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location
4	belong	present	a home				to someone	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	pay	present	renters	a deposit	the start		usually property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deposit=Asset
6	sign	present	renters not said here	a agreement				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent agreement=Destination

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:038-looking-after-yourself-and-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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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