Test 10 · ★ · Unemployment: when jobs are lost
Grace hears two people argue about help for people out of work. The help is £400 a month and a low-paid job pays £1,600. How much more does the job pay?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grace, two people, paid job · What happens: hear, argue, pay, do · To what, where: job pay · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 35 «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» 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: Grace hears two people argue about help for people out of work.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hears | nsubj |
| 2 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 people | nummod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 argue | nsubj |
| 5 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hears | ccomp |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 help | case |
| 7 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 argue | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 help | nmod |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 work | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 work | case |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 people | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | Grace | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | present | two people | about help for people out work | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about help=Topic |
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: The help is £400 a month and a low-paid job pays £1,600.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 help | det |
| 2 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 £ | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 £ | cop |
| 4 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 5 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 £ | nummod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 month | det |
| 7 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 £ | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pays | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 job | det |
| 10 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 paid | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 low | punct |
| 12 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 job | amod |
| 13 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pays | nsubj |
| 14 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 £ | conj |
| 15 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 14 pays | obj |
| 16 | 1,600 | 1,600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 £ | nummod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 £ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | participle | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | pay | present | a paid job | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset |
Sentence 3: How much more does the job pay?
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 | 3 more | amod |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 does | advmod |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pay | det |
| 6 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pay | compound |
| 7 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the job pay | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
£1,200
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 1,200 | 1200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
£4
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
£400
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 £ | nummod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
£2,000
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | root | root |
| 2 | 2,000 | 2000 | 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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