Test 5 · ★ · SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper

Which sentence uses an adverb?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sentence · What happens: use · To what, where: adverb

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 52 «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 sentence	det
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	nsubj
3	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 adverb	det
5	adverb	adverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 uses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	which sentence	a adverb					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adverb=Patient

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

The boy was very loud.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loud	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loud	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 loud	advmod
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 loud	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boy					loud property	tree rules

Option 2

The loud boy laughed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the loud boy						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The boy's laugh was loud.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laugh	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 boy	case
4	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loud	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loud	cop
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 loud	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boy's laugh					loud property	tree rules
2	laugh		the boy						nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The boy laughed loudly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	3 laughed	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the boy					loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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