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Test 4 · ★★ · SATs: the reading paper

"Find and copy one word that shows the house was old." The text says, "The crumbling house stood silent." What should you write?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, one word, house, text, crumbling house · What happens: find, copy, show, be, say, stand · To what, where: one word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: "Find and copy one word that shows the house was old."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Find	punct
2	Find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 copy	cc
4	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Find	conj
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 word	nummod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 copy	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 shows	nsubj
8	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 word	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 old	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 old	cop
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shows	ccomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Find	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	imperative	you not said here						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	copy in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	one word					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
3	show in a quote	present	one word						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	past	the house					old 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: The text says, "The crumbling house stood silent."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 text	det
2	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
7	crumbling	crumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	compound
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	nsubj
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
10	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stood	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the text						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stand in a quote	past	the crumbling house					silent property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What should you write?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 write	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 write	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 write	nsubj
4	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 write	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	should	you						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

house stood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	house						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

crumbling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	crumbling	crumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crumble	gerund							vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

The crumbling house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
2	crumbling	crumbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	compound
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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