Exam question 2 · Why some jobs pay more
Ascertain how many times the remuneration of a chief executive in receipt of £2,000,000 exceeds that of an employee in receipt of £20,000.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, remuneration · What happens: ascertain, exceed, remunerate · To what, where: that, chief executive receipt
This is exam question 2 of lesson 30 «Why some jobs pay more» 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 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 times | amod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 exceeds | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 remuneration | det |
| 6 | remuneration | remuneration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 exceeds | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 receipt | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 receipt | det |
| 9 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 receipt | amod |
| 10 | executive | executive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 receipt | amod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 receipt | case |
| 12 | receipt | receipt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remuneration | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 £ | case |
| 14 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 12 receipt | nmod |
| 15 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 £ | nummod |
| 16 | exceeds | exceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ascertain | advcl:relcl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 exceeds | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 employee | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 employee | det |
| 20 | employee | employee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 that | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 receipt | case |
| 22 | receipt | receipt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 exceeds | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 £ | case |
| 24 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 22 receipt | nmod |
| 25 | 20,000 | 20000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 £ | nummod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | exceed | present | the remuneration of a chief executive receipt | that | time | in receipt | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot that=Theme in receipt=Attribute | ||
| 3 | remunerate | a chief executive receipt | nom remuneration «possession 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
50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
1,000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
100
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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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