--- title: Select the response that most accurately characterises the arrangeme… — Looking after yourself and a home · tree and pragmatics description: Select the response that most accurately characterises the arrangement whereby a person occupies a dwelling owned by another in exchange for monthly payments. Exam question 2 of lesson 38 «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/) / [Looking after yourself and a home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Looking after yourself and a home Select the response that most accurately characterises the arrangement whereby a person occupies a dwelling owned by another in exchange for monthly payments. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, most, person · **What happens:** select, characteris, occupy, own · **To what, where:** response, arrangement, dwelling, exchange This is exam question 2 of lesson 38 «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home:e2:1 # text = Select the response that most accurately characterises the arrangement whereby a person occupies a dwelling owned by another in exchange for monthly payments. 1 Select select VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 response response NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 nsubj _ _ 6 accurately accurately ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 characterises characteris VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 arrangement arrangement NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 whereby whereby ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 occupies occupy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 dwelling dwelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 owned own VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 16 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 exchange exchange NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 monthly monthly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 payments payment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme | | 2 | **characteris** | present | most | the arrangement | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **occupy** | present | a person | a dwelling | | | | whereby *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dwelling=Experiencer | | 4 | **own** | participle | | a dwelling *not said here* | | exchange for monthly payments | | by another | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Purchasing ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home:e2:o1:1 # text = Purchasing 1 Purchasing purchase VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **purchase** | gerund | | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ### Option 2 {#o2} Inheriting ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home:e2:o2:1 # text = Inheriting 1 Inheriting inherit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **inherit** | gerund | | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Guest accommodation ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home:e2:o3:1 # text = Guest accommodation 1 Guest gu ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 accommodation accommodation NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Renting ```conllu # sent_id = question:adult-life:38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home:e2:o4:1 # text = Renting 1 Renting rent VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rent** | gerund | | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | **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. 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