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title: What would happen to a cleaner's pay if suddenly very few people cou… — Why some jobs pay more · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a cleaner's pay if suddenly very few people could do cleaning? Test 4 · ★ 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 option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Why some jobs pay more

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What would happen to a cleaner's pay if suddenly very few people could do cleaning?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** few people, cleaner · **What happens:** happen, do, pay · **To what, where:** cleaning

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 30 «Why some jobs pay more» 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/30-why-some-jobs-pay-more/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:t4:1
# text = What would happen to a cleaner's pay if suddenly very few people could do cleaning?
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	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
16	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to a cleaner's pay | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | few people | cleaning |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Eventuality |
| 3 | **pay** |  | a cleaner |  |  |  |  |  | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It would go down, because fewer cleaners means less work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:t4:o1:1
# text = It would go down, because fewer cleaners means less work
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	cleaners	cleaner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | would | It |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **mean** | present | fewer cleaners | less work |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Nothing, pay is set once and never changes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:t4:o2:1
# text = Nothing, pay is set once and never changes
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | present · passive |  | Nothing pay |  |  |  | once *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **not** **change** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It would probably go up, because cleaners would be in demand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:t4:o3:1
# text = It would probably go up, because cleaners would be in demand
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	cleaners	cleaner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | would | It |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | would | cleaners |  |  | demand |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cleaners would stop being paid at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:t4:o4:1
# text = Cleaners would stop being paid at all
1	Cleaners	cleaner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | Cleaners |  |  | all |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pay** | gerund · passive | Cleaners *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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