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title: What would happen if Aoife got paid for every single little job, eve… — Pocket money and earning it with chores · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Aoife got paid for every single little job, even brushing her teeth? Test 10 of lesson 6 «Pocket money and earning it with chores» 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 10 · Pocket money and earning it with chores

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What would happen if Aoife got paid for every single little job, even brushing her teeth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, pay, brush · **To what, where:** Aoife, teeth

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This is test 10 of lesson 6 «Pocket money and earning it with chores» 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/6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores:t10:1
# text = What would happen if Aoife got paid for every single little job, even brushing her teeth?
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	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	Aoife	Aoife	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
10	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	brushing	brush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | Aoife |  |  |  | for every single little job | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for job=Theme |
| 3 | **brush** | gerund |  | Aoife's teeth |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme |

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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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Her teeth would get cleaner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores:t10:o1:1
# text = Her teeth would get cleaner
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | Her teeth | cleaner |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cleaner=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Helping at home would start to feel like a job only done for cash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores:t10:o2:1
# text = Helping at home would start to feel like a job only done for cash
1	Helping	help	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | gerund |  |  |  | home |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **start** | would | Helping |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **feel** | to-infinitive | Helping *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a job | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like job=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | participle | Helping *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for cash | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing, all families do this

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores:t10:o3:1
# text = Nothing, all families do this
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She'd become a millionaire by Friday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:money:6-pocket-money-and-earning-it-with-chores:t10:o4:1
# text = She'd become a millionaire by Friday
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	millionaire	millionaire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | She | a millionaire |  |  | friday |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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