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Test 9 · ★★ · SATs: the reading paper

You meet a really hard question near the start. What is the best move?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, best move · What happens: meet, be · To what, where: hard question, start

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: You meet a really hard question near the start.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 meet	nsubj
2	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 question	det
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 question	amod
6	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meet	obj
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 start	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 start	det
9	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 question	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 meet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present	You	a hard question		the start			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Co-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 the best move?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 move	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 move	amod
5	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best move						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Put your hand up and leave the room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hand	nmod:poss
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	1 Put	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 leave	cc
6	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Put	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put up	imperative	you not said here	your hand					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
2	leave	infinitive	you not said here	the room					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme

Option 2

Stare at it until the time runs out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Stare	obl
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 runs	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 runs	nsubj
7	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stare	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 runs	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	imperative	you not said here					at it	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	run out	present	the time						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Write a very long answer to it anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 answer	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Write	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Write	obl
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Write	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	imperative	you not said here	a long answer	answer			anyway property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent answer=Topic to it=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Skip it, do the rest, then come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skip	skip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Skip	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Skip	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rest	det
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 come	advmod
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Skip	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	imperative	you not said here	it					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	do	infinitive	you not said here	the rest					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Eventuality
3	come back	infinitive	you not said here				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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