Exam question 1 · Unemployment: when jobs are lost
It is given that five hundred employees, each remunerated at £500 per week, lose their employment. Determine the aggregate weekly reduction in local earnings.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: employees, you · What happens: give, remunerate, lose, employ, determine · To what, where: It, each, employment, aggregate weekly reduction, local earnings
This is exam question 1 of lesson 35 «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» 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
Sentence 1: It is given that five hundred employees, each remunerated at £500 per week, lose their employment.
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 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 five | det |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | compound |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 employees | nummod |
| 7 | employees | employee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 given | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remunerated | punct |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 remunerated | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | remunerated | remunerate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 given | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 £ | case |
| 12 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 10 remunerated | obl |
| 13 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 £ | nummod |
| 14 | per | per | ADP | _ | 15 week | case |
| 15 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 £ | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lose | punct |
| 17 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 £ | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 employment | nmod:poss |
| 19 | employment | employment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lose | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient employee=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remunerate | participle · passive | each | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | lose | present | employees's employment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employment=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | employ | employees = employee | nom employment «state 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.
Sentence 2: Determine the aggregate weekly reduction in local earnings.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Determine | determine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reduction | det |
| 3 | aggregate | aggregate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reduction | compound |
| 4 | weekly | weekly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reduction | amod |
| 5 | reduction | reduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Determine | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 earnings | case |
| 7 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 earnings | amod |
| 8 | earnings | earning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reduction | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determine | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | imperative | you not said here | the aggregate weekly reduction | local earnings | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reduction=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
£25,000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 25,000 | 25000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
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 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£2,500,000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
£250,000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 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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