--- title: "It's got potential" is a polite way of saying a house is not nice n… — Moving house and renting a home · tree and pragmatics description: "It's got potential" is a polite way of saying a house is not nice now but could be with work and money. Who acts: landlord, got potential, house, polite way. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord, got potential, house, polite way), 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:15 # text = "It's got potential" is a polite way of saying a house is not nice now but could be with work and 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:cop 4 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 potential potential NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 11 of of SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 18 now now ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** *in a quote* | present · passive | landlord | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | present | got potential | a polite way | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a house | a polite way *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | a polite way | | | | now | nice *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | could | a polite way *not said here* | | | | | with work and money | tree rules | 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:15`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/14/) - next →: [Moving house and renting a home, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/)