--- title: Ella's dad earns £15 an hour. He works 35 hours one week. How much d… — Jobs and what people earn · tree and pragmatics description: Ella's dad earns £15 an hour. He works 35 hours one week. How much does he earn? Test 9 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/) / [Jobs and what people earn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/29-jobs-and-what-people-earn/) / t9 # Test 9 · Jobs and what people earn Ella's dad earns £15 an hour. He works 35 hours one week. How much does he earn? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** earn, work · **To what, where:** much This is test 9 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Ella's dad earns £15 an hour. ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:t9:1 # text = Ella's dad earns £15 an hour. 1 Ella Ella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 earns earn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 £ £ SYM $ _ 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **earn** | present | Ella's dad | | | | hour | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* He works 35 hours one week. ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:t9:2 # text = He works 35 hours one week. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 35 35 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | dad | | | | hour; week | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | *Sentence 3:* How much does he earn? ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:t9:3 # text = How much does he earn? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obj _ _ 3 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 earn earn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **earn** | present · do-support | dad | much | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} £535 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:t9:o1:1 # text = £535 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 535 535 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} £525 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:t9:o2:1 # text = £525 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 525 525 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} £600 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:t9:o3:1 # text = £600 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 600 600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} £50 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:29-jobs-and-what-people-earn:t9:o4:1 # text = £50 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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