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description: It is given that a professional footballer receives £100,000 per week. Determine the remuneration received over fifty-two weeks. Exam question 1 of lesson 30 «Why some jobs pay more» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Exam question 1 · Why some jobs pay more

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It is given that a professional footballer receives £100,000 per week. Determine the remuneration received over fifty-two weeks.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** professional footballer, you, remuneration · **What happens:** give, receive, determine · **To what, where:** It

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 30 «Why some jobs pay more» 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/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/#e1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that a professional footballer receives £100,000 per week.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:e1:1
# text = It is given that a professional footballer receives £100,000 per 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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	professional	professional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	footballer	footballer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	£	£	SYM	$	_	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	100,000	100000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
11	per	per	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	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 | **receive** | present | a professional footballer |  |  |  | per week |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Determine the remuneration received over fifty-two weeks.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:e1:2
# text = Determine the remuneration received over fifty-two weeks.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	remuneration	remuneration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	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* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **receive** | past | the remuneration |  |  |  | week |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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£1,000,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:e1:o1:1
# text = £1,000,000
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1,000,000	1,000,000	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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£5,200,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:e1:o2:1
# text = £5,200,000
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	5,200,000	5,200,000	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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£520,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:e1:o3:1
# text = £520,000
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	520,000	520,000	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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£52,000,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:e1:o4:1
# text = £52,000,000
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	52,000,000	52,000,000	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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