Test 11 · ★★ · SATs: the reading paper
"Which word in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to 'scared'?" Paragraph 2: "Ben was hungry and terrified, though he tried to look brave and cheerful."
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: word, Paragraph, Ben · What happens: be, try, look · To what, where: meaning
This is test 11 · ★★ 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: "Which word in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to 'scared'?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 closest | punct |
| 2 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 word | det |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 closest | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 paragraph | case |
| 5 | paragraph | paragraph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 word | nmod |
| 6 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 paragraph | flat |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 closest | cop |
| 8 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 meaning | case |
| 10 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 closest | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 scared | case |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 scared | punct |
| 13 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 meaning | acl |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 scared | punct |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 closest | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 closest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | which word in paragraph | meaning | close property | tree rules |
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: Paragraph 2: "Ben was hungry and terrified, though he tried to look brave and cheerful."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paragraph | paragraph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hungry | nsubj |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Paragraph | flat |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 hungry | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hungry | punct |
| 5 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hungry | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hungry | cop |
| 7 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 terrified | cc |
| 9 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hungry | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tried | punct |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 tried | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tried | nsubj |
| 13 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hungry | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tried | xcomp |
| 16 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 look | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cheerful | cc |
| 18 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 brave | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hungry | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hungry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Paragraph | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | Paragraph not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | try in a quote | past | Ben | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | look not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Ben not said here | brave property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
cheerful
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
terrified
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
hungry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
brave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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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