--- title: An estate agent helps sell a house and shows people round; a survey… — Moving house and renting a home · tree and pragmatics description: An estate agent helps sell a house and shows people round; a survey checks it for problems; a mortgage from the bank pays for most of it. Who acts: estate agent, survey, mortgage. A sentence of the lesson «Moving house and renting a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Moving house and renting a home, sentence 2 An estate agent helps sell a house and shows people round; a survey checks it for problems; a mortgage from the bank pays for most of it. **Who acts:** estate agent, survey, mortgage · **What happens:** help, sell, show, check, pay · **To what, where:** house, people 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 (estate agent, survey, 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:2 # text = An estate agent helps sell a house and shows people round; a survey checks it for problems; a mortgage from the bank pays for most of it. # 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 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 estate estate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 agent agent NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 round round ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 survey survey NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 problems problem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 mortgage mortgage NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | present | a estate agent | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **sell** | infinitive | a estate agent *not said here* | a house | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 3 | **show** | present | a estate agent *not said here* | | people | | | round *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | | 4 | **check** | present | a survey | house | | | | for problems | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme for problem=Attribute | | 5 | **pay** | present | a mortgage from the bank | | | | | for most of house | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for most=Theme | 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:2`. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/1/) - next →: [Moving house and renting a home, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/)