Exam question 1 · Jobs and what people earn
It is given that an employee is remunerated at £15 per hour and works forty hours in a week. Determine the gross weekly remuneration.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, remunerate, work, determine · To what, where: It, employee, gross weekly remuneration
This is exam question 1 of lesson 29 «Jobs and what people earn» of the money 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
Sentence 1: It is given that an employee is remunerated at £15 per hour and works forty hours in a week.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 remunerated | mark |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 employee | det |
| 6 | employee | employee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 remunerated | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 remunerated | aux:pass |
| 8 | remunerated | remunerate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 £ | case |
| 10 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 8 remunerated | obl |
| 11 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 £ | nummod |
| 12 | per | per | ADP | _ | 13 hour | case |
| 13 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 £ | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 works | cc |
| 15 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | conj |
| 16 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hours | nummod |
| 17 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 works | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 week | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 week | det |
| 20 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 works | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remunerate | present · passive | a employee | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | work | present | hour; week | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
Sentence 2: Determine the gross weekly remuneration.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 remuneration | det |
| 3 | gross | gross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 remuneration | amod |
| 4 | weekly | weekly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 remuneration | amod |
| 5 | remuneration | remuneration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the gross weekly remuneration | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remuneration=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£640
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 640 | 640 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
£600
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 600 | 600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£55
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 55 | 55 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£400
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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