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title: A rental deposit is money held in case of damage, and it comes back… — Moving house and renting a home · tree and pragmatics
description: A rental deposit is money held in case of damage, and it comes back if the home is left in good condition. Who acts: deposit. A sentence of the lesson «Moving house and renting a home» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Moving house and renting a home, sentence 13

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A rental deposit is money held in case of damage, and it comes back if the home is left in good condition.

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**Who acts:** deposit · **What happens:** be, hold, come back, leave · **To what, where:** money, case, home, good condition

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving house and renting a home» 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 (deposit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:010-moving-house-and-renting-a-home.lesson:13
# text = A rental deposit is money held in case of damage, and it comes back if the home is left in good condition.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 010-moving-house-and-renting-a-home.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rental	rental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod
3	deposit	deposit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 · passive |  | money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | participle |  | money *not said here* |  | case of damage |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in case=Location |
| 3 | **come back** | present | deposit |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | the home |  | good condition |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in condition=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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**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:010-moving-house-and-renting-a-home.lesson:13`.

**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. **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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