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description: It is given that five hundred employees, each remunerated at £500 per week, lose their employment. Determine the aggregate weekly reduction in local earnings. Exam question 1 of lesson 35 «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» of the money course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pr
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# Exam question 1 · Unemployment: when jobs are lost

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It is given that five hundred employees, each remunerated at £500 per week, lose their employment. Determine the aggregate weekly reduction in local earnings.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** employees, you · **What happens:** give, remunerate, lose, employ, determine · **To what, where:** It, each, employment, aggregate weekly reduction, local earnings

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 35 «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» 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/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/#e1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that five hundred employees, each remunerated at £500 per week, lose their employment.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:e1:1
# text = It is given that five hundred employees, each remunerated at £500 per week, lose their employment.
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	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	employees	employee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	remunerated	remunerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	£	£	SYM	$	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
14	per	per	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	employment	employment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	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-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient employee=Theme |
| 2 | **remunerate** | participle · passive |  | each |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **lose** | present |  | employees's employment |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employment=Eventuality |
| 4 | **employ** |  | employees *= employee* |  |  |  |  |  | nom employment «state 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Determine the aggregate weekly reduction in local earnings.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:e1:2
# text = Determine the aggregate weekly reduction in local earnings.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	weekly	weekly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reduction	reduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	earnings	earning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	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* | the aggregate weekly reduction |  | local earnings |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reduction=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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£25,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:e1:o1:1
# text = £25,000
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	25,000	25000	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 {#o2}

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£1,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:e1:o2:1
# text = £1,000
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1,000	1000	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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£2,500,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:e1:o3:1
# text = £2,500,000
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2,500,000	2,500,000	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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£250,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:e1:o4:1
# text = £250,000
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	250,000	250,000	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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