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title: Grandad: "I paid in for 45 years, now it pays me back, lad." What is… — Wages, salary and where family money c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grandad: "I paid in for 45 years, now it pays me back, lad." What is he talking about? Test 5 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 wro
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# Test 5 · Wages, salary and where family money comes from

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Grandad: "I paid in for 45 years, now it pays me back, lad." What is he talking about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Grandad, it · **What happens:** pay, pay back, talk about · **To what, where:** me

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Grandad: "I paid in for 45 years, now it pays me back, lad."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from:t5:1
# text = Grandad: "I paid in for 45 years, now it pays me back, lad."
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	45	45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** *in a quote* | past | Grandad |  |  |  | year |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pay back** *in a quote* | present | it |  | me |  | now | lad *vocative* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Asset |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is he talking about?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from:t5:2
# text = What is he talking about?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk about** | present · progressive | Grandad |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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His pocket money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from:t5:o1:1
# text = His pocket money
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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His pension

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from:t5:o2:1
# text = His pension
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	pension	pension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pension** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom pension «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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His mortgage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from:t5:o3:1
# text = His mortgage
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mortgage	mortgage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mortgage** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mortgage «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A loot box

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:20-wages-salary-and-where-family-money-comes-from:t5:o4:1
# text = A loot box
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	loot	loot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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