--- title: Moving house and renting a home — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Moving house and renting a home», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Families move house for many reasons: a new job, more room, a cheaper rent, or because a tenancy ends. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / Moving house and renting a home # Moving house and renting a home Lesson 10 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/0/) — Families move house for many reasons: a new job, more room, a cheaper rent, or because a tenancy ends. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/1/) — Buying, selling or renting a home has many steps, and things can take months or fall through. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/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. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/3/) — Renters sign a tenancy and pay a deposit that comes back if the home is left in good condition. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/4/) — Example: in a house in Brisbane, a "For Sale" board goes up out the front. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/5/) — Every Saturday the kids race to tidy their rooms before strangers come for a viewing, and weeks later Mum bursts in: "We've had an offer, but it's subject to survey!" - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/6/) — Moving is one of the most stressful things grown-ups do, so they can be tired and snappy. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/8/) — A "For Sale" board means the family has decided to sell the house, and selling usually takes months, not days. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/9/) — An estate agent helps sell houses, and viewings are when people who might buy come to look round. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/10/) — A tidy house helps buyers imagine living there and can sell faster or for more money. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/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. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/12/) — A landlord is allowed to raise the rent, usually with warning, and a rise leaves less money for other things. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/13/) — A rental deposit is money held in case of damage, and it comes back if the home is left in good condition. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/14/) — A tenancy is the agreement to rent a home for a set time; at the end the landlord can offer a new one or ask the family to leave. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/15/) — "It's got potential" is a polite way of saying a house is not nice now but could be with work and money. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/16/) — A mortgage is a very big bank loan to buy a house, paid back monthly for 25 years or more with interest. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/17/) — Moving means packing everything, doing paperwork and saying goodbye all at once, so it is very stressful. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/18/) — A welcome card from new neighbours is a friendly hello, and getting on with neighbours makes life easier. - ← previous: [When money is tight](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/) - next →: [When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)