Exam question 1 · Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"

Identify the manner in which Year 6 writing is assessed in England.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, assess · To what, where: manner, Year writing

This is exam question 1 of lesson 53 «Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"» 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	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 assessed	obl
6	Year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 writing	compound
7	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 Year	flat
8	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 assessed	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 assessed	aux:pass
10	assessed	assess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 manner	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 England	case
12	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 assessed	obl
13	.	.	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 manner					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent manner=Theme
2	assess	present · passive		Year writing		the manner		in England	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Computer marking of one composition

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marking	compound
2	marking	marking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 composition	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 composition	nummod
5	composition	composition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marking	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark			one composition					nom marking «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Teacher assessment of work across the year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 assessment	compound
2	assessment	assessment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 work	case
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 assessment	nmod
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 year	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 assessment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assess			work			across the year		nom assessment «cognition transitive»: of=patient across=obl

Option 3

A single timed examination in May

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 examination	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 examination	amod
3	timed	time	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 examination	amod
4	examination	examination	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 May	case
6	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 examination	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	time	participle							vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

External assessment of one paragraph

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	External	external	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 assessment	amod
2	assessment	assessment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 paragraph	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 paragraph	nummod
5	paragraph	paragraph	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 assessment	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assess			one paragraph					nom assessment «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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