Test 9 · Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"

Which helps most the night before SATs?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: help

This is test 9 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	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 helps	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helps	obl:unmarked
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 SATs	case
7	SATs	sat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 helps	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present					before SATs; night		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1

Watching a really scary film

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 film	det
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 scary	advmod
4	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 film	amod
5	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund		a scary film					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme

Option 2

Drinking lots and lots of fizzy pop at bedtime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Drinking	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 lots	cc
4	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lots	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 pop	case
6	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pop	amod
7	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lots	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 bedtime	case
9	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drinking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		lots and lots of fizzy pop		bedtime			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient

Option 3

Revising until three in the morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Revising	revise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	until	until	ADP	_	3 three	case
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Revising	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 morning	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Revising	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	revise	gerund					until three; morning		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A good meal, a calm evening and sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 meal	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 meal	amod
3	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 evening	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 evening	det
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 evening	amod
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meal	appos
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sleep	cc
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meal	conj

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.

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