---
title: You meet a really hard question near the start. What is the best move? — SATs: the reading paper · tree and pragmatics
description: You meet a really hard question near the start. What is the best move? Test 9 · ★★ 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[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/t9/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / t9

# Test 9 · ★★ · SATs: the reading paper

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
You meet a really hard question near the start. What is the best move?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You, best move · **What happens:** meet, be · **To what, where:** hard question, start

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 1:* You meet a really hard question near the start.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t9:1
# text = You meet a really hard question near the start.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | You | a hard question |  | the start |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Co-Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 2:* What is the best move?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t9:2
# text = What is the best move?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the best move |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Put your hand up and leave the room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t9:o1:1
# text = Put your hand up and leave the room
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put up** | imperative | you *not said here* | your hand |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the room |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Stare at it until the time runs out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t9:o2:1
# text = Stare at it until the time runs out
1	Stare	stare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at it | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 2 | **run out** | present | the time |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Write a very long answer to it anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t9:o3:1
# text = Write a very long answer to it anyway
1	Write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | imperative | you *not said here* | a long answer | answer |  |  | anyway *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent answer=Topic to it=Recipient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Skip it, do the rest, then come back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:51-sats-the-reading-paper:t9:o4:1
# text = Skip it, do the rest, then come back
1	Skip	skip	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the rest |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come back** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [SATs: the reading paper, test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/t8/)
- next →: [SATs: the reading paper, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/t10/)
- ↑ back to [SATs: the reading paper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/)