--- title: An offer "subject to survey" means the buyer wants an expert to chec… — Moving house and renting a home · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: offer, buyer. A sentence of the lesson «Moving house and renting a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t --- [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/11/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/) / 11 # Moving house and renting a home, sentence 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. **Who acts:** offer, buyer · **What happens:** mean, want, check, lower, pull out, find · **To what, where:** expert, house, offer, problems · **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 (offer, buyer), 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:11 # text = 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. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 offer offer NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 survey survey NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 buyer buyer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 expert expert NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 lower lower VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 offer offer NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 pull pull VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 problems problem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | a offer | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **want** | present | the buyer | a expert | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot expert=Theme | | 3 | **check** | to-infinitive | the buyer *not said here* | the house | | | | first *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 4 | **lower** | may | the buyer *not said here* | the offer | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | | 5 | **pull out** | infinitive | the buyer *not said here* | | | | | | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | problems | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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](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: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): 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/). - ← previous: [Moving house and renting a home, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/10/) - next →: [Moving house and renting a home, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/)