Exam question 2 · Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"

Select the response most consistent with the established facts concerning admission to secondary school in most of England.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, admission

This is exam question 2 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 consistent	advmod
5	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 facts	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 facts	det
8	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 facts	amod
9	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 consistent	obl
10	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 facts	acl
11	admission	admission	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 concerning	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 school	case
13	secondary	secondary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 school	amod
14	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 concerning	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 most	case
16	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 school	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 England	case
18	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 most	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	admission	to secondary school in most of England	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus admission=Experiencer

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

It is determined by the writing alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 determined	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 determined	aux:pass
3	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 writing	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 writing	det
6	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 determined	obl
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 writing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	present · passive	the writing	It					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It depends wholly upon SATs results

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 depends	nsubj
2	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	2 depends	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 results	case
5	SATs	sat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 results	compound
6	results	result	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 depends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depend	present	It					upon SATs results; wholly property	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is reserved for those with full marks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reserved	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reserved	aux:pass
3	reserved	reserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 those	case
5	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 reserved	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 marks	case
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 marks	amod
8	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 those	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reserve	present · passive		It				for those	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for that=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It does not ordinarily depend upon SATs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 depend	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 depend	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 depend	advmod
4	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	_	5 depend	advmod
5	depend	depend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 SATs	case
7	SATs	sat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 depend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not depend	present · do-support	It					upon SATs; ordinarily property	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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