--- title: A welcome card from new neighbours is a friendly hello, and getting… — Moving house and renting a home · tree and pragmatics description: A welcome card from new neighbours is a friendly hello, and getting on with neighbours makes life easier. Who acts: welcome card, getting. 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 --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # Moving house and renting a home, sentence 18 A welcome card from new neighbours is a friendly hello, and getting on with neighbours makes life easier. **Who acts:** welcome card, getting · **What happens:** be, get on, make · **To what, where:** friendly hello 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 (welcome card, getting), 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:18 # text = A welcome card from new neighbours is a friendly hello, and getting on with neighbours makes life easier. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 welcome welcome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 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 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:root 10 hello hello NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 csubj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 13 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:case 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 19 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 xcomp _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a welcome card from new neighbours | a friendly hello | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get on** | gerund | | | | | | with neighbours | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **make** | present | getting | | | | | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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:18`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/17/) - next →: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/)