--- title: "Find and copy one word that shows the house was old." The text says… — SATs: the reading paper · tree and pragmatics description: "Find and copy one word that shows the house was old." The text says, "The crumbling house stood silent." What should you write? Test 4 · ★★ 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 opti --- [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/t4/) [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/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★★ · SATs: the reading paper "Find and copy one word that shows the house was old." The text says, "The crumbling house stood silent." What should you write? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, one word, house, text, crumbling house · **What happens:** find, copy, show, be, say, stand · **To what, where:** one word · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 4 · ★★ 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/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* "Find and copy one word that shows the house was old." ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t4:1 # text = "Find and copy one word that shows the house was old." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Find find VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 copy copy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **copy** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | one word | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 3 | **show** *in a quote* | present | one word | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the house | | | | | old *property* | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* The text says, "The crumbling house stood silent." ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t4:2 # text = The text says, "The crumbling house stood silent." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 text text 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 , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 crumbling crumbling NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 10 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the text | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **stand** *in a quote* | past | the crumbling house | | | | | silent *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | *Sentence 3:* What should you write? ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t4:3 # text = What should you write? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | should | you | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} house stood ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t4:o1:1 # text = house stood 1 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | house | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} crumbling ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t4:o2:1 # text = crumbling 1 crumbling crumble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crumble** | gerund | | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} silent ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t4:o3:1 # text = silent 1 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The crumbling house ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t4:o4:1 # text = The crumbling house 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 crumbling crumbling NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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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