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title: Your mate says, "You gotta read every text super slow, three times,… — SATs: the reading paper · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mate says, "You gotta read every text super slow, three times, then answer." What is better? Test 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's choice was wrong.
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# Test 1 · ★★ · SATs: the reading paper

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Your mate says, "You gotta read every text super slow, three times, then answer." What is better?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, You · **What happens:** say, read, answer, be · **To what, where:** text · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 51 «SATs: the reading paper» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate says, "You gotta read every text super slow, three times, then answer."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t1:1
# text = Your mate says, "You gotta read every text super slow, three times, then answer."
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	gotta	gotta	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	super	super	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	answer	answer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **read** *in a quote* |  | You | every text |  |  | time |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent text=Topic |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is better?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t1:2
# text = What is better?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Read only the questions and never the texts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t1:o1:1
# text = Read only the questions and never the texts
1	Read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* | the questions and the texts |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Topic |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Answer without reading the texts at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t1:o2:1
# text = Answer without reading the texts at all
1	Answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | gerund | Answer *not said here* | the texts |  | all |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent text=Theme at all=Value |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Read each text five times, very slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t1:o3:1
# text = Read each text five times, very slowly
1	Read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* | each text |  |  | time | slowly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent text=Topic |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Read each text once carefully, then answer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t1:o4:1
# text = Read each text once carefully, then answer
1	Read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	advmod	_	_
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	answer	answer	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* | each text |  |  |  | carefully, once *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent text=Topic |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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