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title: A deposit for buying a home is often tens of thousands of pounds, an… — Paying for a home and the bills · tree and pragmatics
description: A deposit for buying a home is often tens of thousands of pounds, and saving for it can take years. Who acts: deposit. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Paying for a home and the bills, sentence 19

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A deposit for buying a home is often tens of thousands of pounds, and saving for it can take years.

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**Who acts:** deposit · **What happens:** buy, be, save, take · **To what, where:** home, tens, deposit

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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 (deposit), 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:19
# text = A deposit for buying a home is often tens of thousands of pounds, and saving for it can take years.
# 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	deposit	deposit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | gerund | a deposit *not said here* | a home |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a deposit | tens |  |  |  | of thousands of pounds; often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | gerund | a deposit *not said here* | deposit |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | can | a deposit *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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