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title: "Tick one: the main idea of the text is…" What should you look for? — SATs: the reading paper · tree and pragmatics
description: "Tick one: the main idea of the text is…" What should you look for? Test 10 · ★★ 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 10 · ★★ · SATs: the reading paper

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"Tick one: the main idea of the text is…" What should you look for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** main idea, you · **What happens:** tick, be, look · **To what, where:** one

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This is test 10 · ★★ 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "Tick one: the main idea of the text is…"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t10:1
# text = "Tick one: the main idea of the text is…"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tick	tick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	…	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tick** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | the main idea of the text |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 should you look for?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t10:2
# text = What should you look for?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | should | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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What the whole text is mostly about

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t10:o1:1
# text = What the whole text is mostly about
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	1	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The funniest bit, wherever it is

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t10:o2:1
# text = The funniest bit, wherever it is
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	funniest	funny	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | bit |  |  |  |  | the funniest bit *obl:unmarked*; wherever *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The longest word anywhere in the text

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t10:o3:1
# text = The longest word anywhere in the text
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only what the first sentence says

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t10:o4:1
# text = Only what the first sentence says
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the first sentence |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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