Exam question 1 · SATs: the reading paper

Identify the year group in England in which pupils customarily sit the national reading test known colloquially as SATs.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, pupils · What happens: identify, sit, know · To what, where: year group, England, national reading test

This is exam question 1 of lesson 51 «SATs: the reading paper» of the English 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 group	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 group	compound
4	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 England	case
6	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 sit	obl
9	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sit	nsubj
10	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	11 sit	advmod
11	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 test	det
13	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 test	amod
14	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 test	compound
15	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sit	obj
16	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 test	acl
17	colloquially	colloquially	ADV	_	16 known	advmod
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 SATs	case
19	SATs	sat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 known	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the year group	England		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent group=Theme
2	sit	present	pupils	the national reading test		customarily property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent test=Theme in which=Location
3	know	participle		the national reading test not said here		as SATs; colloquially property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as sat=Attribute

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Year 6

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Year	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Year 2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Year	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Year 9

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Year	flat

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Year 11

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Year	flat

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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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