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title: Ascertain the duration customarily allotted to the reading paper. — SATs: the reading paper · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the duration customarily allotted to the reading paper. Exam question 3 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's choice was right.
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# Exam question 3 · SATs: the reading paper

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Ascertain the duration customarily allotted to the reading paper.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, allot · **To what, where:** duration, reading paper

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the duration customarily allotted to the reading paper.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	customarily	customarily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	allotted	allot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the duration |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic |
| 2 | **allot** | participle |  | the duration *not said here* |  |  |  | to the reading paper *goal*; customarily *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to paper=Goal |

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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}

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One hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:e3:o1:1
# text = One hour
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fifteen minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:e3:o2:1
# text = Fifteen minutes
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Two hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:e3:o3:1
# text = Two hours
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Three hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:e3:o4:1
# text = Three hours
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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