Exam question 3 · SATs: the reading paper

Ascertain the duration customarily allotted to the reading paper.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, allot · To what, where: duration, reading paper

This is exam question 3 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duration	det
3	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	customarily	customarily	ADV	_	5 allotted	advmod
5	allotted	allot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 duration	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 paper	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 paper	det
8	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 paper	compound
9	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 allotted	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the duration					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic
2	allot	participle		the duration not said here				to the reading paper goal; customarily property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to paper=Goal

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

One hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hour	nummod
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Fifteen minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 minutes	nummod
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Two hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Three hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hours	nummod
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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