Test 9 · Jobs and what people earn
Ella's dad earns £15 an hour. He works 35 hours one week. How much does he earn?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: earn, work · To what, where: much
This is test 9 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: Ella's dad earns £15 an hour.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ella | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 earns | nsubj |
| 4 | earns | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 4 earns | obj |
| 6 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 £ | nummod |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hour | det |
| 8 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 earns | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 earns | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn | present | Ella's dad | hour | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: He works 35 hours one week.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 works | nsubj |
| 2 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 35 | 35 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 hours | nummod |
| 4 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 works | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 week | nummod |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 works | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 works | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | dad | hour; week | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: How much does he earn?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 earn | obj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 earn | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 earn | nsubj |
| 5 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 earn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn | present · do-support | dad | much | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£535
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 535 | 535 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
£525
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 525 | 525 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£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 4
£50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 50 | 50 | 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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