Test 5 · Jobs and what people earn

What would happen if there were no minimum wage at all?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: minimum wage · What happens: happen, be

This is test 5 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 were	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 wage	det
8	minimum	minimum	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wage	amod
9	wage	wage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 were	nsubj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 wage	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be a condition, not said to happen	past	no minimum wage at all			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Everybody would be paid exactly the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 paid	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 paid	aux:pass
4	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 same	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 paid	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	would · passive		Everybody				same property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

Option 2

Everybody's pay would double overnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 pay	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Everybody	case
3	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 double	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 double	aux
5	double	double	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	5 double	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	double	would	Everybody's pay					overnight property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	pay		Everybody						nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody would be allowed to work any more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	aux:pass
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 work	mark
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	any	any	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	would · passive		Nobody					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	work not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Some bosses could pay workers very little per hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 bosses	det
2	bosses	boss	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pay	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pay	aux
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pay	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 little	advmod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pay	obl:unmarked
8	per	per	ADP	_	9 hour	case
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	could	some bosses	workers			hour	little obl:unmarked	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Asset

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