Exam question 3 · Jobs and what people earn

Ascertain the earnings of a care worker remunerated at £11 per hour in respect of a period of eight hours.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, remunerate, respect · To what, where: earnings, care worker, respect, period

This is exam question 3 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 earnings	det
3	earnings	earning	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 worker	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 worker	det
6	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worker	compound
7	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 earnings	nmod
8	remunerated	remunerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 worker	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 £	case
10	£	£	SYM	_	8 remunerated	obl
11	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 £	nummod
12	per	per	ADP	_	13 hour	case
13	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 £	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 respect	case
15	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remunerated	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 period	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 period	det
18	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 respect	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 hours	case
20	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 hours	nummod
21	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 period	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the earnings of a care worker		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earning=Topic
2	remunerate	participle		a care worker not said here	respect of a period of eight hours	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	respect			a period of eight hours		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 right answer

£88

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	88	88	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 2

£96

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	96	96	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 3

£19

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	19	19	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 £	nummod

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

Option 4

£81

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	£	£	SYM	_	root	root
2	81	81	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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