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# Test 10 · ★ · Unemployment: when jobs are lost

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Grace hears two people argue about help for people out of work. The help is £400 a month and a low-paid job pays £1,600. How much more does the job pay?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Grace, two people, paid job · **What happens:** hear, argue, pay, do · **To what, where:** job pay · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 35 «Unemployment: when jobs are lost» 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/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Grace hears two people argue about help for people out of work.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:t10:1
# text = Grace hears two people argue about help for people out of work.
1	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | Grace |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | two people |  |  |  |  | about help for people out work | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about help=Topic |

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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:* The help is £400 a month and a low-paid job pays £1,600.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:t10:2
# text = The help is £400 a month and a low-paid job pays £1,600.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	£	£	SYM	$	_	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	1,600	1,600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pay** | present | a paid job |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Asset |

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*Sentence 3:* How much more does the job pay?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:t10:3
# text = How much more does the job pay?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the job pay |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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£1,200

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:t10:o1:1
# text = £1,200
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	1,200	1200	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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£4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:t10:o2:1
# text = £4
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4	4	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
£400

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:t10:o3:1
# text = £400
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	400	400	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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£2,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost:t10:o4:1
# text = £2,000
1	£	£	SYM	$	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2,000	2000	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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