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title: A tenancy is the agreement to rent a home for a set time; at the end… — Moving house and renting a home · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: tenancy, landlord, family. 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
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# Moving house and renting a home, sentence 14

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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.

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**Who acts:** tenancy, landlord, family · **What happens:** be, rent, offer, ask, leave · **To what, where:** agreement, home, new one, end, family

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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 (tenancy, landlord, family), 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:14
# text = 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.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tenancy	tenancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	rent	rent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a tenancy | the agreement |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rent** | to-infinitive |  | a home |  |  | time |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 3 | **offer** | can | the landlord | a new one |  |  | at the end |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | the landlord *not said here* | the family |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent family=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the family *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:14`.

**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.

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

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