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title: Identify the principal disadvantage of self-employment in respect of… — Shifts, nights and other ways of working · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal disadvantage of self-employment in respect of illness. Exam question 2 of lesson 2 «Shifts, nights and other ways of working» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 2 · Shifts, nights and other ways of working

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Identify the principal disadvantage of self-employment in respect of illness.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, respect · **To what, where:** principal disadvantage, respect, illness

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 2 «Shifts, nights and other ways of working» of the adult life 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal disadvantage of self-employment in respect of illness.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	disadvantage	disadvantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	employment	employment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal disadvantage of self employment |  | respect of illness |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent disadvantage=Theme |
| 2 | **respect** |  |  | illness |  |  |  |  | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The self-employed person is forbidden by statute to fall ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working:e2:o1:1
# text = The self-employed person is forbidden by statute to fall ill
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	statute	statute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
12	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **forbid** | present · passive | statute | the employed person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | to-infinitive | statute *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Illness automatically terminates self-employment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working:e2:o2:1
# text = Illness automatically terminates self-employment
1	Illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	automatically	automatically	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	terminates	terminate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	employment	employment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **terminate** | present | Illness | self employment |  |  |  | automatically *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employment=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No sick pay is received during any period of incapacity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working:e2:o3:1
# text = No sick pay is received during any period of incapacity
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	during	during	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	incapacity	incapacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | present · passive |  | no sick pay |  |  | during any period of incapacity |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The government pays the self-employed double when ill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working:e2:o4:1
# text = The government pays the self-employed double when ill
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
10	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present | the government | the employed double |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent double=Asset |
| 2 | **employ** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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**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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