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title: An estate agent helps sell houses, and viewings are when people who… — Moving house and renting a home · tree and pragmatics
description: An estate agent helps sell houses, and viewings are when people who might buy come to look round. Who acts: estate agent, people, viewings. 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 ever
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# Moving house and renting a home, sentence 9

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An estate agent helps sell houses, and viewings are when people who might buy come to look round.

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**Who acts:** estate agent, people, viewings · **What happens:** help, sell, buy, be, look round · **To what, where:** houses

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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 (estate agent, people, viewings), 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:9
# text = An estate agent helps sell houses, and viewings are when people who might buy come to look round.
# 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	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	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	viewings	viewing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	round	round	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | 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* | houses |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 3 | **buy** | might | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | viewings |  |  |  |  | come *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **look round** | to-infinitive | viewings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:9`.

**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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