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title: Every Saturday the kids race to tidy their rooms before strangers co… — Moving house and renting a home · tree and pragmatics
description: Every Saturday the kids race to tidy their rooms before strangers come for a viewing, and weeks later Mum bursts in: "We've had an offer, but it's subject to survey!" Who acts: kids, strangers, Mum, We. A sentence of the lesson «Moving house and renting a home» of the adult life course of Mova's pri
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# Moving house and renting a home, sentence 5

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Every Saturday the kids race to tidy their rooms before strangers come for a viewing, and weeks later Mum bursts in: "We've had an offer, but it's subject to survey!"

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**Who acts:** kids, strangers, Mum, We, offer · **What happens:** race, tidy, come, burst in, have, be · **To what, where:** rooms, offer · **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 (kids, strangers, Mum, We), 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:5
# text = Every Saturday the kids race to tidy their rooms before strangers come for a viewing, and weeks later Mum bursts in: "We've had an offer, but it's subject to survey!"
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound
5	race	race	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	tidy	tidy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:acl
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	viewing	viewing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl:unmarked
19	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
20	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	bursts	burst	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
25	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	parataxis	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	subject	subject	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	survey	survey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **race** | present | the kids |  |  |  | saturday |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tidy** | to-infinitive | the kids *not said here* | kids's rooms |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present | strangers |  |  |  |  | for a viewing | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **burst in** | present | Mum |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | We | a offer |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Patient |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | offer |  |  |  |  | to survey; subject *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:5`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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