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title: Moving means packing everything, doing paperwork and saying goodbye… — Moving house and renting a home · tree and pragmatics
description: Moving means packing everything, doing paperwork and saying goodbye all at once, so it is very stressful. Who acts: goodbye. 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 17

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Moving means packing everything, doing paperwork and saying goodbye all at once, so it is very stressful.

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**Who acts:** goodbye · **What happens:** move, mean, pack, do, say, be · **To what, where:** everything, paperwork, goodbye · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (goodbye), 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:17
# text = Moving means packing everything, doing paperwork and saying goodbye all at once, so it is very stressful.
# 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	Moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	packing	pack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	xcomp	_	_
4	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
7	paperwork	paperwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
10	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	stressful	stressful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pack** *not said to happen* | gerund |  | everything |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | gerund |  | paperwork |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paperwork=Eventuality |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | goodbye |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic |
| 6 | **is** | present | goodbye |  |  |  |  | stressful *property* | tree rules |

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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:17`.

**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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