--- title: Identify the year group in England in which pupils customarily sit t… — SATs: the reading paper · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the year group in England in which pupils customarily sit the national reading test known colloquially as SATs. Exam question 1 of lesson 51 «SATs: the reading paper» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [SATs: the reading paper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · SATs: the reading paper Identify the year group in England in which pupils customarily sit the national reading test known colloquially as SATs. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, pupils · **What happens:** identify, sit, know · **To what, where:** year group, England, national reading test This is exam question 1 of lesson 51 «SATs: the reading paper» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:e1:1 # text = Identify the year group in England in which pupils customarily sit the national reading test known colloquially as SATs. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 obl _ _ 9 pupils pupil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 customarily customarily ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 national national ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 reading reading NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 colloquially colloquially ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 SATs sat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the year group | | England | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent group=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | present | pupils | the national reading test | | | | customarily *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent test=Theme in which=Location | | 3 | **know** | participle | | the national reading test *not said here* | | | | as SATs; colloquially *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as sat=Attribute | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Year 6 ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:e1:o1:1 # text = Year 6 1 Year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Year 2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:e1:o2:1 # text = Year 2 1 Year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Year 9 ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:e1:o3:1 # text = Year 9 1 Year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Year 11 ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:e1:o4:1 # text = Year 11 1 Year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 flat _ _ ``` 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. 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