--- title: In a rented home the landlord owns the house and must fix the big th… — When things break: boilers, plumbers and paint · tree and pragmatics description: In a rented home the landlord owns the house and must fix the big things, but tenants often have to ask again and again before anything happens. Who acts: landlord, tenants, anything. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord, tenants, anything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:011-when-things-break.lesson:2 # text = In a rented home the landlord owns the house and must fix the big things, but tenants often have to ask again and again before anything happens. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 011-when-things-break.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 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 rented rent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 landlord landlord NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 owns own VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 tenants tenant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advcl 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 again again ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 again again ADV RB _ 23 conj _ _ 26 before before SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 nsubj _ _ 28 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rent** | participle | | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **own** | present | the landlord | the house | | a rented home | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot house=Theme | | 3 | **fix** | must | the landlord *not said here* | the big things | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 4 | **have** | present | tenants | | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | tenants *not said here* | | | | again | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **happen** | present | anything | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:011-when-things-break.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: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/1/) - next →: [When things break: boilers, plumbers a…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/)