Test 9 · ★ · SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: punctuate · To what, where: sentence

This is test 9 · ★ 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	4 punctuated	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 punctuated	aux:pass
4	punctuated	punctuate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	4 punctuated	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 punctuated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punctuate	present · passive		which sentence				correctly property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

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

Later, that day it snowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 snowed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Later	punct
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snowed	obl:unmarked
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 snowed	nsubj
6	snowed	snow	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	snow	past	it				day	late property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Later that day, it snowed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 day	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snowed	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 snowed	nsubj
6	snowed	snow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 snowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snow	past	it				day		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 3

Later that day; it snowed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 snowed	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Later	obl:unmarked
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 snowed	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 snowed	nsubj
6	snowed	snow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 snowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snow	past	it					late property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 4

Later that day it, snowed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 snowed	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snowed	obl:unmarked
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 snowed	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 snowed	punct
6	snowed	snow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 snowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snow	past	it				day	late property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

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