SATs: the reading paper
Tests: 1 of 11 right · Exam: 3 of 4 right · Kind: ★★ · Understood: 5 of 15 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 51 of the english course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: the lesson in the corpora.
Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.
Test 1 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Your mate says, "You gotta read every text super slow, three times, then answer." What is better?
- 1. Read only the questions and never the texts — no support
- 2. Answer without reading the texts at all — ← Mova's choice · score 8
- 3. Read each text five times, very slowly — score 8
- 4. Read each text once carefully, then answer — ✓ the right answer · score 8
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 8, tied with another option at 8 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 24, line 3: «A newspaper article has a headline in big or capital letters to grab you and sum up the story: «LOCAL GIRL SAVES DUCKS». The first paragraph tells who, what, w…», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «say» (+5); the same thing acted on «quotes» (+5). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 4, scored 8. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★★ · wrong ✗
What would happen if you spent 40 of the 60 minutes on the first text?
- 1. Nothing, because time does not matter — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. You would be given extra time at the end — no support
- 3. The other two texts would become easier — no support
- 4. Too little time would be left for the others — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★★ · wrong ✗
A 3-mark question says, "Give three reasons why Sam was upset." Liam writes one long reason. What is most likely?
- 1. He gets two marks — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He gets four marks — no support
- 3. He gets all three marks — no support
- 4. He gets one mark at most — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★★ · wrong ✗
"Find and copy one word that shows the house was old." The text says, "The crumbling house stood silent." What should you write?
- 1. house stood — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. crumbling — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. silent — no support
- 4. The crumbling house — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★★ · right ✓
A cartoon says SATs decide whether you are allowed into secondary school. Fix it.
- 1. SATs decide which of the sports teams you may join — score 0
- 2. Fail and you stay in Year 6 for another year — no support
- 3. Only children with full marks get a place — no support
- 4. Everyone moves up; SATs mostly measure progress — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 7
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 7, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 51, line 17: «SATs do not decide whether you go to secondary school: everyone moves up, and the results mostly measure how much progress children have made.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «measure» (+5); the same property (+3). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Gran in Bristol: "Don't you go all teasy, my lover, 'tis only a test." ("Teasy" is West Country for cranky; "my lover" is a friendly greeting.) What does she mean?
- 1. The test is very teasy and very hard — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. You are in love with the test, my dear — no support
- 3. Go and tease your brother after the test — no support
- 4. Don't get grumpy, love, it's only a test — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★★ · wrong ✗
The text says, "Amira's hands shook as she knocked." The question: "How did Amira feel? Give evidence." What is the best answer?
- 1. Sleepy: she stood at a door — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Angry: she knocked very hard — no support
- 3. Nervous: "her hands shook" — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Happy: she knocked on a door — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★★ · wrong ✗
Josh, rough: "Bloody hell, I ticked three on a 'tick two', I'm done for." What is true?
- 1. He gets an extra mark for trying — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He loses that one mark, not the whole test — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He fails the whole of the SATs now — no support
- 4. The marker will just pick his best two — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★★ · wrong ✗
You meet a really hard question near the start. What is the best move?
- 1. Put your hand up and leave the room — no support
- 2. Stare at it until the time runs out — no support
- 3. Write a very long answer to it anyway — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 4. Skip it, do the rest, then come back — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 44, line 12: «Persuasive devices include rhetorical questions, facts and numbers, strong adjectives and speaking directly to the reader as "you".», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★★ · wrong ✗
"Tick one: the main idea of the text is…" What should you look for?
- 1. What the whole text is mostly about — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The funniest bit, wherever it is — no support
- 3. The longest word anywhere in the text — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 4. Only what the first sentence says — score 4
Why: It took the question to ask a circumstance (with what, when, how). It chose option 3 with score 7, against 4 for the next best. Its support: lesson 18, line 2: «A detective does not need a magnifying glass, only careful eyes. Every inference needs a reason from the text: «Jack was nervous because his hands shook as he…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same circumstance (+3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★★ · wrong ✗
"Which word in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to 'scared'?" Paragraph 2: "Ben was hungry and terrified, though he tried to look brave and cheerful."
- 1. cheerful — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. terrified — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. hungry — no support
- 4. brave — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · right ✓
Identify the year group in England in which pupils customarily sit the national reading test known colloquially as SATs.
- 1. Year 6 — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Year 2 — no support
- 3. Year 9 — no support
- 4. Year 11 — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓
It is given that a question instructs candidates to "find and copy one word". Determine the most appropriate response.
- 1. Copy the entire relevant sentence — no support
- 2. Paraphrase the passage at length — no support
- 3. Copy exactly one word from the text — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 14
- 4. Supply a word of one's own choosing — score 1
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 14, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 51, line 9: «"Find and copy one word" means copying exactly one word from the text; writing a whole sentence can lose the mark.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «copy» (+5); the same thing acted on «one word» (+5); the same place «text» (+4). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Ascertain the duration customarily allotted to the reading paper.
- 1. One hour — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Fifteen minutes — no support
- 3. Two hours — no support
- 4. Three hours — no support
Why: Nothing it remembers matched the question, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
Select the response consistent with established guidance concerning questions requiring evidence.
- 1. Omit all mention of the text whatsoever — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Repeat the question verbatim as the answer — no support
- 3. Support the answer by reference to the text — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Rely exclusively upon personal opinion — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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