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title: It is given that an employee is remunerated at £15 per hour and work… — Jobs and what people earn · tree and pragmatics
description: It is given that an employee is remunerated at £15 per hour and works forty hours in a week. Determine the gross weekly remuneration. Exam question 1 of lesson 29 «Jobs and what people earn» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Exam question 1 · Jobs and what people earn

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It is given that an employee is remunerated at £15 per hour and works forty hours in a week. Determine the gross weekly remuneration.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, remunerate, work, determine · **To what, where:** It, employee, gross weekly remuneration

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 29 «Jobs and what people earn» of the money 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/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/#e1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that an employee is remunerated at £15 per hour and works forty hours in a week.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:e1:1
# text = It is given that an employee is remunerated at £15 per hour and works forty hours in a week.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	employee	employee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	remunerated	remunerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	£	£	SYM	$	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
12	per	per	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **remunerate** | present · passive |  | a employee |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **work** | present |  |  |  |  | hour; week |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Determine the gross weekly remuneration.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:e1:2
# text = Determine the gross weekly remuneration.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	gross	gross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	weekly	weekly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	remuneration	remuneration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the gross weekly remuneration |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remuneration=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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£640

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:e1:o1:1
# text = £640
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	640	640	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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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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£600

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:e1:o2:1
# text = £600
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	600	600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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£55

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:e1:o3:1
# text = £55
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	55	55	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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£400

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:e1:o4:1
# text = £400
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
```

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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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