Exam question 2 · Shifts, nights and other ways of working

Identify the principal disadvantage of self-employment in respect of illness.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, respect · To what, where: principal disadvantage, respect, illness

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2 «Shifts, nights and other ways of working» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 disadvantage	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 disadvantage	amod
4	disadvantage	disadvantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 employment	case
6	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 employment	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 self	punct
8	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disadvantage	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 respect	case
10	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 illness	case
12	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 respect	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal disadvantage of self employment		respect of illness			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent disadvantage=Theme
2	respect			illness					nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The self-employed person is forbidden by statute to fall ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 person	det
2	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 employed	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 self	punct
4	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 person	amod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forbidden	nsubj:pass
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 forbidden	aux:pass
7	forbidden	forbid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 statute	case
9	statute	statute	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forbidden	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fall	mark
11	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 forbidden	xcomp
12	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fall	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	employ	participle				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	forbid	present · passive	statute	the employed person		tree rules
3	fall	to-infinitive	statute not said here		ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Illness automatically terminates self-employment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 terminates	nsubj
2	automatically	automatically	ADV	_	3 terminates	advmod
3	terminates	terminate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employment	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 self	punct
6	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 terminates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	terminate	present	Illness	self employment				automatically property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employment=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No sick pay is received during any period of incapacity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 pay	det
2	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pay	amod
3	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 received	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 received	aux:pass
5	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	during	during	ADP	_	8 period	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 period	det
8	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 received	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 incapacity	case
10	incapacity	incapacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 period	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	present · passive		no sick pay			during any period of incapacity		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

The government pays the self-employed double when ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 government	det
2	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pays	nsubj
3	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 double	det
5	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 employed	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 self	punct
7	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 double	amod
8	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pays	obj
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 ill	mark
10	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pays	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present	the government	the employed double					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent double=Asset
2	employ	participle							vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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