--- title: A contract is a written promise, for a phone, a flat or a job; the s… — Looking after yourself and a home · tree and pragmatics description: A contract is a written promise, for a phone, a flat or a job; the small print is the detail, and once you sign you usually have to keep to it. Who acts: contract, small print, you. A sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/16/) [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/) / [Looking after yourself and a home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/) / 16 # Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 16 A contract is a written promise, for a phone, a flat or a job; the small print is the detail, and once you sign you usually have to keep to it. **Who acts:** contract, small print, you · **What happens:** write, be, sign, have, keep · **To what, where:** written promise, detail, print This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and 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 (contract, small print, you), 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:16 # text = A contract is a written promise, for a phone, a flat or a job; the small print is the detail, and once you sign you usually have to keep to it. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 contract contract NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 promise promise NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 flat flat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 print print NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 detail detail NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 once once SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 sign sign VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 usually usually ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | a contract | a written promise | | | | for a phone and a flat or a job | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | the small print | the detail | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sign** | present | you | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | present | you | | | | | usually *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | print | | | | vn keep-15.2 «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:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:16`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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: [Looking after yourself and a home, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/15/) - next →: [Looking after yourself and a home, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/)