Exam question 4 · SATs: the reading paper

Select the response consistent with established guidance concerning questions requiring evidence.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, consistent guidance concerning questions · What happens: select, establish, require · To what, where: response, evidence

This is exam question 4 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 questions	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 guidance	case
6	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 guidance	amod
7	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 questions	compound
8	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 questions	amod
9	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Select	obj
10	requiring	require	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 questions	acl
11	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 requiring	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	tree rules
2	establish	participle			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	require	gerund	consistent guidance concerning questions not said here	evidence	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme evidence=Precondition

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

Omit all mention of the text whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Omit	omit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 mention	det
3	mention	mention	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Omit	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 text	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 text	det
6	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mention	nmod
7	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	1 Omit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	omit	imperative	you not said here	all mention of the text				whatsoever property	vn exclude-107.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mention=Theme
2	mention			the text					nom mention «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Repeat the question verbatim as the answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Repeat	repeat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 verbatim	det
3	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 verbatim	compound
4	verbatim	verbatim	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Repeat	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 answer	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 answer	det
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Repeat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	imperative	you not said here	the question verbatim				as the answer	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verbatim=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Support the answer by reference to the text

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Support	support	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 answer	det
3	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Support	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 reference	case
5	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Support	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 text	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 text	det
8	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Support	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	support	imperative	you not said here	the answer				by reference; to the text	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus

Option 4

Rely exclusively upon personal opinion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rely	rely	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	1 Rely	advmod
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 opinion	case
4	personal	personal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 opinion	amod
5	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rely	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rely	imperative	you not said here					upon personal opinion; exclusively property	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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