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title: A tidy house helps buyers imagine living there and can sell faster o… — Moving house and renting a home · tree and pragmatics
description: A tidy house helps buyers imagine living there and can sell faster or for more money. Who acts: tidy house, buyers. A sentence of the lesson «Moving house and renting a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Moving house and renting a home, sentence 10

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A tidy house helps buyers imagine living there and can sell faster or for more money.

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**Who acts:** tidy house, buyers · **What happens:** help, imagine, live, sell

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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 (tidy house, buyers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:010-moving-house-and-renting-a-home.lesson:10
# text = A tidy house helps buyers imagine living there and can sell faster or for more money.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 010-moving-house-and-renting-a-home.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	buyers	buyer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
12	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | a tidy house |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **imagine** | infinitive | buyers |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | buyers *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sell** | can | a tidy house *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:10`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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