Test 4 · Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"
A cartoon says one writing test on one day decides your Year 6 writing. Fix it.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, one writing test, your, you · What happens: say, decide, write, fix · To what, where: Year writing, writing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 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
Sentence 1: A cartoon says one writing test on one day decides your Year 6 writing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 test | nummod |
| 5 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 test | compound |
| 6 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 decides | nsubj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 day | nummod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 test | nmod |
| 10 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 writing | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 writing | compound |
| 13 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Year | flat |
| 14 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 decides | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a cartoon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | decide | present | one writing test on one day | your Year writing | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent writing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | write | your | nom writing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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: Fix it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Fix | obj |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fix | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | imperative | you not said here | writing | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It's teacher-assessed from the whole year
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 assessed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 assessed | aux |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 assessed | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 teacher | punct |
| 5 | assessed | assess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 year | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 year | amod |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 assessed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assess | present · passive | It | year | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
Writing is marked by a robot in London
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 marked | aux:pass |
| 3 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 robot | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 robot | det |
| 6 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marked | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 London | case |
| 8 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 robot | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | present · passive | a robot in London | Writing | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |
Option 3
There is no writing at all in Year 6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 writing | det |
| 4 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 is | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Year | case |
| 8 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 all | nmod |
| 9 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Year | flat |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no writing | all; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location |
Option 4
The cartoon is right about the writing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 writing | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 writing | det |
| 7 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 right | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the cartoon | about the writing; right property | tree rules |
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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