Why some jobs pay more

Tests: 3 of 11 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 9 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72

Lesson 30 of the money course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: the lesson in the corpora.

Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.

Test 1 · ★ · right ✓

Your mate goes, "Cleaners get paid less cos cleaning doesn't matter, innit." What's the best reply?

1. Cleaners choose to earn less to be kind — no support
2. He's right, low pay shows a job doesn't matter — no support
3. Cleaners actually earn the most of anyone — no support
4. It matters a lot; more people can do it, so it's paid less — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 4

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 4, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 30, line 2: «A doctor trains for 5 or 6 years at university and more after, and few people can do the work, so doctors earn more; lots of people can learn to clean in a few…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «pay» (+4); the same property (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗

A nurse from Belfast says, "We save lives, and yer man on the telly earns in a week what I earn in years." ("Yer man" means "that fella".) What's true?

1. Nurses earn more than footballers every year — score 10
2. Pay doesn't always match how useful a job is, and people argue about it — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. It's a lie; footballers and nurses earn the same — score 8
4. Footballers save more lives than nurses do — ← Mova's choice · score 12

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 12, against 10 for the next best. Its support: lesson 30, line 5: «Many people feel it is unfair that a nurse who saves lives earns far less than a footballer; others say pay follows what people choose to spend on; both sides…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same action «save» (+4); the same thing acted on «lives» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗

Josh says, "Footballers get paid way too much." His mate says, "But millions watch 'em!" What's going on?

1. Josh is right and nobody watches football — no support
2. His mate is right, and nobody at all thinks it's too much money — no support
3. Neither, because footballers aren't paid at all — ← Mova's choice · score 2
4. They have different views; both point to real reasons — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 30, line 9: «A top footballer might earn £100,000 a week, which is 52 × £100,000 = £5,200,000 a year, because millions pay to watch and buy shirts.», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «pay» (+3); the same doer «millions» (+2). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-3). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗

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

1. It would go down, because fewer cleaners means less work — no support
2. Nothing, pay is set once and never changes — ← Mova's choice · score 2
3. It would probably go up, because cleaners would be in demand — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Cleaners would stop being paid at all — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 30, line 11: «Jobs in expensive cities often pay more; London weighting is extra pay for working in London, like £35,000 instead of £28,000, which is £7,000 more.», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same thing acted on «extra pay» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗

Mo's uncle, a Londoner, says, "Same job, bruv, but London rent is bare mental, so they pay more." ("Bare" means very.) His pay is £35,000 and out of town it's £28,000. What's the extra for?

1. Being from London by birth; it's £7,000 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Nothing, it's a mistake on his payslip — no support
3. The higher cost of living in London; it's £7,000 more — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. Working harder than people in other towns do; it's £63,000 — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗

Ellie's grandad says, "Loads of rich folk aren't that clever, ha." What lesson is he giving?

1. Money shows exactly how clever someone is — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. Being rich means you must be very clever — no support
3. Clever people are never rich at all — no support
4. Pay depends on many things, including luck, not just cleverness — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 7 · ★ · right ✓

Aisha's aunt and uncle do the same job. "Yer man gets three grand more cos he's a fella," jokes the aunt. ("Grand" means a thousand pounds.) What's the truth?

1. That shouldn't happen; equal pay laws say same work, same pay — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 5
2. That's fair, men are always meant to earn more — no support
3. That's fine as long as she gets a nicer desk — no support
4. It's normal, the law says men earn more — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 5, tied with another option at 5 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 30, line 13: «Equal pay laws in many countries, including the UK, say men and women must get the same pay for the same work; sometimes it still does not happen, and people f…», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+3); the same doer «equal pay laws» (+2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗

A cartoon shows a doctor and a cleaner on exactly the same pay because "all jobs are equally hard". What's the real reason pay differs?

1. Training, how many can do the job, and demand differ — ✓ the right answer · score 6
2. Pay depends only on how hard and tiring the job is each day — ← Mova's choice · score 8
3. Everyone in real life earns exactly the same amount of pay — score 4
4. Real doctors are actually paid less than most cleaners are — no support

Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 2 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 30, line 16: «Pay depends on skills, hard work, chances, where you live and luck, and money is not a measure of how good a person is.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «depend» (+4); the same doer «pay» (+4). The right option, 1, scored 6. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗

Finn's dad: "Two years of night college — no, two and a half — and now I earn more." He went from £22,000 to £30,000. How much more each year?

1. £52,000 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. £2,500 — no support
3. £10,000 — no support
4. £8,000 — ✓ the right answer · no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗

A boss earns £2 million and a worker £20,000. A Gen Z intern goes, "That's not it, that's lowkey wild." ("Lowkey" means quietly, kind of.) What's the honest summary?

1. The worker earns more than the boss — ← Mova's choice · score 6
2. The boss earns 100 times more; some say it's fair, some say it's too much — ✓ the right answer · score 5
3. The boss earns 2 times more and everyone agrees it's fair — score 5
4. The boss earns 10 times more and it's against the law — score 5

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 6, against 5 for the next best. Its support: lesson 30, line 14: «A CEO is the top boss of a company; a CEO on £2,000,000 a year earns 100 times as much as a worker on £20,000; some say bosses earn it, others say it is unfair.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «earn» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 2, scored 5. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Test 11 · ★ · right ✓

Zac says, "Dangerous jobs pay more so people will do them." Which job most likely pays danger money?

1. Selling ice cream on a sunny beach — score 6
2. Reading books in a quiet library — score 6
3. Sorting post in a quiet office — score 6
4. Working on an oil rig at sea — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 8

Why: It took the question to ask who or what does it. It chose option 4 with score 8, against 6 for the next best. Its support: lesson 20, line 2: «Some people are paid a wage for each hour: Jack's mum earns £12.50 an hour in a café, so an 8-hour shift brings £100, and more shifts mean more money; jobs at…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+6); the same doer «jobs» (+4). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-2). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗

It is given that a professional footballer receives £100,000 per week. Determine the remuneration received over fifty-two weeks.

1. £1,000,000 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. £5,200,000 — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. £520,000 — no support
4. £52,000,000 — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗

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.

1. 50 — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. 1,000 — no support
3. 100 — ✓ the right answer · no support
4. 10 — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the principal reason for which certain occupations attract greater remuneration?

1. The greater moral worth of persons engaged in such occupations — ← Mova's choice · no support
2. The scarcity of persons able to perform them relative to the demand for their performance — ✓ the right answer · no support
3. A statutory scale under which all occupations are ranked by importance — no support
4. The age of the persons engaged in such occupations — no support

Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning equal pay in the United Kingdom.

1. The law requires that all employees receive identical remuneration — no support
2. The law permits employers to remunerate men more highly than women — no support
3. The law requires that men and women receive equal pay for equal work — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 12
4. The law makes no provision whatsoever in respect of pay — no support

Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 12, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 30, line 13: «Equal pay laws in many countries, including the UK, say men and women must get the same pay for the same work; sometimes it still does not happen, and people f…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same doer «men» (+4); the same thing acted on «same pay» (+4); the same circumstance (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics

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