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title: What would happen if a family paid monthly spent most of its pay in… — Wages, salary and where family money c… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a family paid monthly spent most of its pay in the first week? Test 10 of lesson 20 «Wages, salary and where family money comes from» of the money 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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# Test 10 · Wages, salary and where family money comes from

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What would happen if a family paid monthly spent most of its pay in the first week?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** family · **What happens:** happen, spend, pay · **To what, where:** family

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This is test 10 of lesson 20 «Wages, salary and where family money comes from» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/money/20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from:t10:1
# text = What would happen if a family paid monthly spent most of its pay in the first week?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	monthly	monthly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
10	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	amod	_	_
17	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spend** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | a family |  |  | week | monthly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pay** |  | family |  |  |  |  |  | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 bank would add more money free when it ran low

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from:t10:o1:1
# text = The bank would add more money free when it ran low
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | would | the bank | more money |  |  |  | free *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 2 | **run** | past | bank |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Money would run very short before the next payday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from:t10:o2:1
# text = Money would run very short before the next payday
1	Money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	payday	payday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | would | Money |  |  | the next payday |  | short *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before payday=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The next payday would come sooner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from:t10:o3:1
# text = The next payday would come sooner
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	payday	payday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | would | the next payday |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing, pay lasts however you spend it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from:t10:o4:1
# text = Nothing, pay lasts however you spend it
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	spend	spend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | present | Nothing pay |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spend** | present | you | pay |  |  |  | however *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |

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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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