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Test 1 · ★★ · SATs: the reading paper

Your mate says, "You gotta read every text super slow, three times, then answer." What is better?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, You · What happens: say, read, answer, be · To what, where: text · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 51 «SATs: the reading paper» of the English 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Your mate says, "You gotta read every text super slow, three times, then answer."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 read	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 read	punct
6	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 read	nsubj
7	gotta	gotta	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 read	aux
8	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 text	det
10	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 read	obj
11	super	super	ADV	_	12 slow	advmod
12	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 read	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 times	punct
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 times	nummod
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 read	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 answer	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 answer	advmod
18	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 says	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 answer	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	read in a quote		You	every text			time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent text=Topic
3	answer speech: assert in a quote	infinitive					then		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: What is better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 better	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Read only the questions and never the texts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 questions	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 questions	det
4	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Read	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 texts	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 texts	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 texts	det
8	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 questions	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here	the questions and the texts					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Answer without reading the texts at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	without	without	SCONJ	_	3 reading	mark
3	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Answer	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 texts	det
5	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reading	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 reading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund	Answer not said here	the texts		all			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent text=Theme at all=Value

Option 3

Read each text five times, very slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 text	det
3	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Read	obj
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Read	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 very	punct
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 slowly	advmod
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here	each text			time	slowly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent text=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Read each text once carefully, then answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 text	det
3	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Read	obj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Read	advmod
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	1 Read	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 answer	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 answer	advmod
8	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Read	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here	each text				carefully, once property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent text=Topic
2	answer speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here				then		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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