Test 4 · ★ · Why some jobs pay more

What would happen to a cleaner's pay if suddenly very few people could do cleaning?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: few people, cleaner · What happens: happen, do, pay · To what, where: cleaning

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 30 «Why some jobs pay more» 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	to	to	ADP	_	8 pay	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cleaner	det
6	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pay	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 cleaner	case
8	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 do	mark
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 few	advmod
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 few	advmod
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 do	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
16	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			to a cleaner's pay	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do a condition, not said to happen	could	few people	cleaning		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Eventuality
3	pay		a cleaner			nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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

It would go down, because fewer cleaners means less work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 means	mark
7	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 cleaners	amod
8	cleaners	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 means	nsubj
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 go	parataxis
10	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 work	amod
11	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	would	It					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	mean	present	fewer cleaners	less work					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, pay is set once and never changes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 pay	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	pay	pay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 set	aux:pass
5	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 set	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 changes	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 changes	advmod
9	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 set	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	present · passive		Nothing pay				once property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	not change	present							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would probably go up, because cleaners would be in demand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 go	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 demand	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 demand	mark
8	cleaners	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 demand	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 demand	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 demand	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 demand	case
12	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	would	It					probably property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is	would	cleaners			demand			tree rules

Option 4

Cleaners would stop being paid at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cleaners	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 paid	aux:pass
5	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stop	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Cleaners			all			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	pay	gerund · passive	Cleaners not said here						vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»

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