--- title: Finn's dad: "Two years of night college — no, two and a half — and n… — Why some jobs pay more · tree and pragmatics description: Finn's dad: "Two years of night college — no, two and a half — and now I earn more." He went from £22,000 to £30,000. How much more each year? 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How much more each year? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dad · **What happens:** earn, go · **To what, where:** more This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Finn's dad: "Two years of night college — no, two and a half — and now I earn more." ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:t9:1 # text = Finn's dad: "Two years of night college — no, two and a half — and now I earn more." 1 Finn Finn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 appos _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 college college NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 — - PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 14 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nsubj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 14 conj _ _ 18 — - PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 earn earn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **earn** *in a quote* | present | Finn's dad | more | | | now | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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 went from £22,000 to £30,000. ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:t9:2 # text = He went from £22,000 to £30,000. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 £ £ SYM $ _ 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 22,000 22,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 £ £ SYM $ _ 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 30,000 30,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | dad | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from £=Initial\_Location to £=Destination | *Sentence 3:* How much more each year? ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:t9:3 # text = How much more each year? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 much much ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 4 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} £52,000 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:t9:o1:1 # text = £52,000 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 52,000 52,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} £2,500 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:t9:o2:1 # text = £2,500 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 2,500 2500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} £10,000 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:t9:o3:1 # text = £10,000 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 10,000 10000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} £8,000 ```conllu # sent_id = question:money:30-why-some-jobs-pay-more:t9:o4:1 # text = £8,000 1 £ £ SYM $ _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 8,000 8,000 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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