--- title: A mortgage is a very big bank loan to buy a house, paid back monthly… — Moving house and renting a home · tree and pragmatics description: A mortgage is a very big bank loan to buy a house, paid back monthly for 25 years or more with interest. Who acts: mortgage. 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. --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Moving house and renting a home, sentence 16 A mortgage is a very big bank loan to buy a house, paid back monthly for 25 years or more with interest. **Who acts:** mortgage · **What happens:** be, buy, pay back · **To what, where:** big bank loan, house 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 (mortgage), 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:16 # text = A mortgage is a very big bank loan to buy a house, paid back monthly for 25 years or more with interest. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mortgage mortgage NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 loan loan NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 paid pay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 15 back back ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 16 monthly monthly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 conj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a mortgage | a big bank loan | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **buy** | to-infinitive | | a house | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 3 | **pay back** | participle | | a big bank loan *not said here* | | | year | with interest; monthly *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:16`. **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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/15/) - next →: [Moving house and renting a home, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/)