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title: Rent is often a family's biggest bill, so when it goes up, other spe… — Paying for a home and the bills · tree and pragmatics
description: Rent is often a family's biggest bill, so when it goes up, other spending has to shrink. Who acts: Rent, landlord, other spending. 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 9

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Rent is often a family's biggest bill, so when it goes up, other spending has to shrink.

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**Who acts:** Rent, landlord, other spending · **What happens:** be, go up, have, shrink · **To what, where:** biggest bill

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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 (Rent, landlord, other spending), 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:9
# text = Rent is often a family's biggest bill, so when it goes up, other spending has to shrink.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Rent	rent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	spending	spending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	shrink	shrink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is a** | present | Rent | a family's biggest bill |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go up** | present | landlord |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | present | other spending |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shrink** | to-infinitive | other spending *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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:006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.lesson:9`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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