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title: Cousin on the phone: "Landlord wants a month's deposit before I get… — Looking after yourself and a home · tree and pragmatics
description: Cousin on the phone: "Landlord wants a month's deposit before I get the keys." What is a deposit here? Test 6 of lesson 38 «Looking after yourself and a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 6 · Looking after yourself and a home

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

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home:t6:1
# text = Cousin on the phone: "Landlord wants a month's deposit before I get the keys."
1	Cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	deposit	deposit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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*Sentence 2:* What is a deposit here?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home:t6:2
# text = What is a deposit here?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	deposit	deposit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A fee for cutting the extra keys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home:t6:o1:1
# text = A fee for cutting the extra keys
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fee	fee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A tip for the landlord's kindness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home:t6:o2:1
# text = A tip for the landlord's kindness
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Money paid at the start of renting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home:t6:o3:1
# text = Money paid at the start of renting
1	Money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	renting	renting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The price of buying the whole flat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:38-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home:t6:o4:1
# text = The price of buying the whole flat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	flat	flat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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**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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