Test 10 · ★★ · SATs: the reading paper
"Tick one: the main idea of the text is…" What should you look for?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: main idea, you · What happens: tick, be, look · To what, where: one
This is test 10 · ★★ 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: "Tick one: the main idea of the text is…"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tick | punct |
| 2 | Tick | tick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 is | parataxis |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Tick | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tick | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 idea | det |
| 6 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 idea | amod |
| 7 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 is | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 text | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 text | det |
| 10 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 idea | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | … | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tick in a quote | infinitive | one | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | the main idea of the text | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 should you look for?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 look | obl |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 look | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | should | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
What the whole text is mostly about
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 text | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 text | amod |
| 4 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 about | cop |
| 6 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 7 about | advmod |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 1 What | case |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The funniest bit, wherever it is
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bit | det |
| 2 | funniest | funny | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 bit | amod |
| 3 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wherever | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bit | punct |
| 5 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wherever | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wherever | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | bit | the funniest bit obl:unmarked; wherever property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The longest word anywhere in the text
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 word | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 text | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 text | det |
| 7 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 word | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Only what the first sentence says
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 what | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 says | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sentence | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 sentence | amod |
| 5 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the first sentence | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/t10/