--- title: Identify the word class of "quickly" in the sentence "The fox ran qu… — SATs: grammar, punctuation and spellin… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the word class of "quickly" in the sentence "The fox ran quickly." Exam question 1 of lesson 52 «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/e1/) [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: grammar, punctuation and spellin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper Identify the word class of "quickly" in the sentence "The fox ran quickly." **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, fox · **What happens:** identify, run · **To what, where:** word class, sentence · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is exam question 1 of lesson 52 «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling 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/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper:e1:1 # text = Identify the word class of "quickly" in the sentence "The fox ran quickly." 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 16 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the word class | | the sentence | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent class=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **run** *in a quote* | past | the fox | | | | | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 {#o1} Noun ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper:e1:o1:1 # text = Noun 1 Noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Preposition ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper:e1:o2:1 # text = Preposition 1 Preposition preposition NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Adjective ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper:e1:o3:1 # text = Adjective 1 Adjective adjective NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Adverb ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper:e1:o4:1 # text = Adverb 1 Adverb adverb 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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