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title: A landlord must keep a rented home safe and fix important things lik… — Paying for a home and the bills · tree and pragmatics
description: A landlord must keep a rented home safe and fix important things like the heating and leaks, though tenants sometimes have to chase repairs. Who acts: landlord, tenants. A sentence of the lesson «Paying for a home and the bills» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Paying for a home and the bills, sentence 11

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A landlord must keep a rented home safe and fix important things like the heating and leaks, though tenants sometimes have to chase repairs.

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**Who acts:** landlord, tenants · **What happens:** keep, rent, fix, have, chase · **To what, where:** rented home, important things, repairs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Paying for a home and the bills» 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 (landlord, tenants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.lesson:11
# text = A landlord must keep a rented home safe and fix important things like the heating and leaks, though tenants sometimes have to chase repairs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.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): R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	rented	rent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	heating	heating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	leaks	leak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	tenants	tenant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	repairs	repair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | must | a landlord | a rented home |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 2 | **rent** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fix** | infinitive | a landlord *not said here* | important things |  |  |  | like the heating and leaks | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | present | tenants |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **chase** | to-infinitive | tenants *not said here* | repairs |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repair=Theme |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×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.

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