Exam question 3 · Finding a job and getting on

Given that wages remain unchanged whilst prices rise, determine the effect upon the employee.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Given wages, prices · What happens: give, remain, rise, determine · To what, where: effect

This is exam question 3 of lesson 3 «Finding a job and getting on» 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	Given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wages	amod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wages	det
3	wages	wage	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 remain	nsubj
4	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	unchanged	unchanged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 remain	xcomp
6	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	8 rise	mark
7	prices	price	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rise	nsubj
8	rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 determine	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rise	punct
10	determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 remain	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 effect	det
12	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 determine	obj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 employee	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 employee	det
15	employee	employee	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 effect	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	participle				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	remain	present	that Given wages		unchanged property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rise	present	prices			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	determine	infinitive		the effect	upon the employee	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Topic

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 right answer

The employee's pay purchases less, and the employee is in effect poorer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 employee	det
2	employee	employee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 employee	case
4	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 purchases	nsubj
5	purchases	purchase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 purchases	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 effect	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 effect	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 employee	det
10	employee	employee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 effect	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 effect	cop
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 effect	case
13	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 purchases	parataxis
14	poorer	poor	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 purchases	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	purchase	present	the employee's pay		less, poor property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	is	present	the employee	effect		tree rules
3	pay		the employee			nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The employee's position remains wholly unaltered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 employee	det
2	employee	employee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 position	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 employee	case
4	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remains	nsubj
5	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	7 unaltered	advmod
7	unaltered	unaltered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 remains	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	present	the employee's position					unaltered property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The employee becomes entitled to a promotion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 employee	det
2	employee	employee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	nsubj
3	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	entitled	entitle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 becomes	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 promotion	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 promotion	det
7	promotion	promotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 entitled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	the employee						tree rules
2	entitle	participle	the employee not said here					to a promotion	tree rules

Option 4

The employee's pay purchases more, and the employee is accordingly richer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 employee	det
2	employee	employee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 employee	case
4	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 purchases	nsubj
5	purchases	purchase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 purchases	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 richer	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 richer	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 employee	det
10	employee	employee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 richer	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 richer	cop
12	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	13 richer	advmod
13	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 purchases	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	purchase	present	the employee's pay	more		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset more=Theme
2	is	present	the employee		accordingly, rich property	tree rules
3	pay		the employee			nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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