Test 8 · ★ · SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper
"Circle the word that is NOT an adjective: tall, happy, slowly, orange." Which word?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Circle · What happens: not be · To what, where: adjective
This is test 8 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: "Circle the word that is NOT an adjective: tall, happy, slowly, orange."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Circle | punct |
| 2 | Circle | Circle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 adjective | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 word | det |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 adjective | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 adjective | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 adjective | cop |
| 7 | NOT | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 adjective | advmod |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 adjective | det |
| 9 | adjective | adjective | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 tall | punct |
| 11 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 adjective | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 happy | punct |
| 13 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tall | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slowly | punct |
| 15 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 11 tall | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 orange | punct |
| 17 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tall | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 adjective | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 adjective | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | Circle | a adjective | 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: Which word?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 word | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
slowly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
orange
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | orange | orange | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
tall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tall | tall | 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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