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title: Rent is money paid every month to live in a home that belongs to som… — Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, cou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rent is money paid every month to live in a home that belongs to someone else, the landlord; at £700 a month it comes to 12 × £700 = £8,400 a year. Who acts: Rent, home. A sentence of the lesson «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» of the money course of Mova's primary school w
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# Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax, sentence 7

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Rent is money paid every month to live in a home that belongs to someone else, the landlord; at £700 a month it comes to 12 × £700 = £8,400 a year.

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**Who acts:** Rent, home · **What happens:** be, pay, live, belong, come · **To what, where:** money, home

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bills: rent, mortgage, energy, water, phone, council tax» of the money 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, home), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:money:021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.lesson:7
# text = Rent is money paid every month to live in a home that belongs to someone else, the landlord; at £700 a month it comes to 12 × £700 = £8,400 a year.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = money
# lesson = 021-bills-rent-mortgage-energy-water-council-tax.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Rent	rent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	obl	_	_
16	else	else	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	£	£	SYM	$	_	27	obl	_	_
23	700	700	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl:unmarked
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	×	×	SYM	SYM	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	£	£	SYM	$	_	30	nmod	_	_
32	700	700	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
33	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	34	case	_	_
34	£	£	SYM	$	_	31	conj	_	_
35	8,400	8,400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	flat	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is a** | present | Rent | money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | participle |  | money *not said here* |  |  | month |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 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 | **come** | present | Rent |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ×=Initial\_Location |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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