--- title: Ascertain how many times the remuneration of a chief executive in re… — Why some jobs pay more · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain how many times the remuneration of a chief executive in receipt of £2,000,000 exceeds that of an employee in receipt of £20,000. Exam question 2 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 o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/e2/) [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/) / [Why some jobs pay more](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/money/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Why some jobs pay more Ascertain how many times the remuneration of a chief executive in receipt of £2,000,000 exceeds that of an employee in receipt of £20,000. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, remuneration · **What happens:** ascertain, exceed, remunerate · **To what, where:** that, chief executive receipt This is exam question 2 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/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:e2:1 # text = Ascertain how many times the remuneration of a chief executive in receipt of £2,000,000 exceeds that of an employee in receipt of £20,000. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 remuneration remuneration NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 chief chief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 10 executive executive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 receipt receipt NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 £ £ SYM $ _ 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 2,000,000 2,000,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 16 exceeds exceed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl:relcl _ _ 17 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 employee employee NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 receipt receipt NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 £ £ SYM $ _ 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 20,000 20000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **exceed** | present | the remuneration of a chief executive receipt | that | | | time | in receipt | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot that=Theme in receipt=Attribute | | 3 | **remunerate** | | | a chief executive receipt | | | | | nom remuneration «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 50 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:e2:o1:1 # text = 50 1 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 1,000 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:e2:o2:1 # text = 1,000 1 1,000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 100 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:e2:o3:1 # text = 100 1 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 10 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:e2:o4:1 # text = 10 1 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` 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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