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title: What would happen if there were no minimum wage at all? — Jobs and what people earn · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if there were no minimum wage at all? Test 5 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 each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 5 · Jobs and what people earn

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What would happen if there were no minimum wage at all?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** minimum wage · **What happens:** happen, be

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This is test 5 of lesson 29 «Jobs and what people earn» 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/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:t5:1
# text = What would happen if there were no minimum wage at all?
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	_	6	mark	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
8	minimum	minimum	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wage	wage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | no minimum wage at all |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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Everybody would be paid exactly the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:t5:o1:1
# text = Everybody would be paid exactly the same
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | would · passive |  | Everybody |  |  |  | same *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Everybody's pay would double overnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:t5:o2:1
# text = Everybody's pay would double overnight
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	double	double	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **double** | would | Everybody's pay |  |  |  |  | overnight *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **pay** |  | Everybody |  |  |  |  |  | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Nobody would be allowed to work any more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:t5:o3:1
# text = Nobody would be allowed to work any more
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	any	any	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allow** | would · passive |  | Nobody |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **work** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Some bosses could pay workers very little per hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:t5:o4:1
# text = Some bosses could pay workers very little per hour
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	bosses	boss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	per	per	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | could | some bosses | workers |  |  | hour | little *obl:unmarked* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=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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