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Test 8 · Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"

Dad, dry: "In my day, we didn't have SATs." Child: "Lucky." What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: not have, be · To what, where: SATs

This is test 8 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: Dad, dry: "In my day, we didn't have SATs."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dry	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dry	punct
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
6	In	in	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 day	nmod:poss
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 day	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 have	advmod
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dry	conj
14	SATs	sat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dry	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have in a quote	past · do-support	we	SATs			day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sat=Patient

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: Child: "Lucky."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Lucky	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Lucky	punct
4	Lucky	Lucky	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Child	appos
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Lucky	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Lucky	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

SATs are hundreds of years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	SATs	sat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hundreds	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hundreds	cop
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 years	case
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hundreds	nmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hundreds	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	SATs	hundreds			year		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Dad's school still had other tests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 school	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Dad	case
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tests	amod
7	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Dad's school	other tests			still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Patient

Option 3

Dad is lying about his school days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lying	aux
3	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 days	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 days	nmod:poss
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 days	compound
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present · progressive	Dad				day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nobody had any tests back then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 tests	det
4	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have back	past	Nobody	any tests			then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=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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