--- title: Probate is the official permission from a court to deal with a dead… — What people leave behind · tree and pragmatics description: Probate is the official permission from a court to deal with a dead person's money and property, and until it comes the house usually cannot be sold; it can take months. Who acts: Probate, it. A sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/6/) [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/) / [What people leave behind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/) / 6 # What people leave behind, sentence 6 Probate is the official permission from a court to deal with a dead person's money and property, and until it comes the house usually cannot be sold; it can take months. **Who acts:** Probate, it · **What happens:** be, deal, come, not sell, take · **To what, where:** official permission, court, house This is a sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» 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 (Probate, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson:6 # text = Probate is the official permission from a court to deal with a dead person's money and property, and until it comes the house usually cannot be sold; it can take months. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 026-what-people-leave-behind.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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 Probate probate NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 permission permission NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 deal deal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 21 until until SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 usually usually ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 35 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Probate | the official permission | | a court | | | tree rules | | 2 | **deal** | to-infinitive | | | | | | with a dead person's money and property | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with money=Theme | | 3 | **come** | present | Probate | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **sell** | can · passive | | the house | | | | usually *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **take** | can | it | | | | month | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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: [What people leave behind, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/5/) - next →: [What people leave behind, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/26-what-people-leave-behind/)