Exam question 1 · SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper

Identify the word class of "quickly" in the sentence "The fox ran quickly."

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fox · What happens: identify, run · To what, where: word class, sentence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 52 «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 class	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 class	compound
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 quickly	case
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 quickly	punct
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 class	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 quickly	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sentence	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sentence	det
11	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 ran	punct
13	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fox	det
14	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ran	nsubj
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	15 ran	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the word class		the sentence			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent class=Theme clause=Attribute
2	run in a quote	past	the fox					quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Noun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noun	noun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Preposition

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Preposition	preposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Adjective

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adjective	adjective	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Adverb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adverb	adverb	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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