--- title: Renting means paying a landlord every month to live in a home that b… — Looking after yourself and a home · tree and pragmatics description: Renting means paying a landlord every month to live in a home that belongs to someone else; renters usually pay a deposit at the start and sign an agreement. Who acts: Renting, home, renters. 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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 (Renting, home, renters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:11 # text = Renting means paying a landlord every month to live in a home that belongs to someone else; renters usually pay a deposit at the start and sign an agreement. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 038-looking-after-yourself-and-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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Renting rent NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 paying pay VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 ccomp _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 landlord landlord NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 belongs belong VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obl _ _ 17 else else ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 19 renters renter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 usually usually ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 pay pay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 deposit deposit NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 sign sign VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 agreement agreement NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Renting | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **pay** | gerund | | a landlord | | | month | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landlord=Asset | | 3 | **live** | to-infinitive | | | | a home | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location | | 4 | **belong** | present | a home | | | | | to someone | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **pay** | present | renters | a deposit | | the start | | usually *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deposit=Asset | | 6 | **sign** | present | renters *not said here* | a agreement | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent agreement=Destination | 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:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:11`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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