Test 10 · Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"
Which of these is a grammar school entrance test, not a SATs paper?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be
This is test 10 of lesson 53 «Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 test | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 test | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 test | det |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 test | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 test | det |
| 6 | grammar | grammar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 school | compound |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entrance | compound |
| 8 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 test | compound |
| 9 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 paper | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 paper | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 paper | det |
| 13 | SATs | Sat | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 paper | compound |
| 14 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 test | parataxis |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 test | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | of this entrance test | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The maths paper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 maths | det |
| 2 | maths | math | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 paper | compound |
| 3 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The spelling test
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 test | det |
| 2 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 test | compound |
| 3 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The 11-plus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 11-plus | det |
| 2 | 11-plus | 11-plus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The reading paper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 paper | det |
| 2 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paper | compound |
| 3 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/t10/