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Test 4 · Jobs and what people earn

Your mate goes, "Carers get paid loads cos it's such an important job." What's actually true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: go, pay, be · To what, where: Carers, important job

This is test 4 of lesson 29 «Jobs and what people earn» of the money course of Mova's primary school. 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: Your mate goes, "Carers get paid loads cos it's such an important job."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 paid	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 paid	punct
6	Carers	carer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 paid	nsubj:pass
7	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 paid	aux:pass
8	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 goes	advcl
9	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 paid	obj
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	16 job	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 job	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 job	cop
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 job	det:predet
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 job	det
15	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 job	amod
16	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 paid	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pay in a quote	present · passive		Carers					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient load=Asset
3	is a in a quote	present	mate	such important job					tree rules

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: What's actually true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 true	advmod
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						actually, true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Carers are paid by the hour more than doctors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carers	carer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paid	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	aux:pass
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 hour	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hour	det
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obl
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 paid	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 doctors	case
9	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present · passive		Carers			hour	than doctors	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

Option 2

Carers are volunteers and are never paid at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carers	carer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 volunteers	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 volunteers	cop
3	volunteers	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 paid	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 volunteers	cc
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 paid	aux:pass
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 paid	advmod
7	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Carers	volunteers					tree rules
2	not pay	present · passive		volunteers		all			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Many carers are low-paid, and people argue about whether they should get more

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 carers	amod
2	carers	carer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 paid	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 paid	aux:pass
4	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 paid	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 low	punct
6	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 argue	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 argue	cc
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 argue	nsubj
10	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 paid	parataxis
11	about	about	SCONJ	_	15 get	mark
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	15 get	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 get	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 get	aux
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 argue	advcl
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	present · passive		Many carers					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
2	argue speech: disagree	present	people						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	should	people	more					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus

Option 4

Carers are the best-paid workers in the country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carers	carer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 workers	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 workers	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 workers	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 workers	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 best	punct
6	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 workers	amod
7	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 country	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 country	det
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 workers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	participle							vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Carers	the best paid workers		the country			tree rules

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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