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Test 6 · Looking after yourself and a home

Cousin on the phone: "Landlord wants a month's deposit before I get the keys." What is a deposit here?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Landlord, I, month · What happens: want, get, deposit, be · To what, where: deposit, keys

This is test 6 of lesson 38 «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: Cousin on the phone: "Landlord wants a month's deposit before I get the keys."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 phone	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 phone	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 phone	det
4	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 wants	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 wants	punct
7	Landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wants	nsubj
8	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 phone	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 month	det
10	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 deposit	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 month	case
12	deposit	deposit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wants	obj
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 get	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 get	nsubj
15	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wants	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 keys	det
17	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 get	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 phone	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 phone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	Landlord	a month's deposit					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot deposit=Theme
2	get in a quote	present	I	the keys					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer key=Stimulus
3	deposit in a quote		a month						nom deposit «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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.

Sentence 2: What is a deposit here?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 deposit	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 deposit	det
4	deposit	deposit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 What	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a deposit					tree rules

The options

Option 1

A fee for cutting the extra keys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fee	det
2	fee	fee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	SCONJ	_	4 cutting	mark
4	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 fee	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 keys	det
6	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keys	amod
7	keys	key	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cutting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund	a fee not said here	the extra keys					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset key=Product

Option 2

A tip for the landlord's kindness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tip	det
2	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	7 kindness	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 landlord	det
5	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kindness	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 landlord	case
7	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tip	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Money paid at the start of renting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Money	acl
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 start	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 start	det
5	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 renting	case
7	renting	renting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 start	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle		Money not said here		the start of renting			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	start			renting					nom start «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The price of buying the whole flat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 price	det
2	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 buying	mark
4	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 price	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flat	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flat	amod
7	flat	flat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	gerund	the price not said here	the whole flat					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flat=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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