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Which word? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Circle · **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** adjective This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 52 «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling 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/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* "Circle the word that is NOT an adjective: tall, happy, slowly, orange." ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper:t8:1 # text = "Circle the word that is NOT an adjective: tall, happy, slowly, orange." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Circle Circle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 NOT not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 adjective adjective NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | Circle | a adjective | | | | | 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:* Which word? ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper:t8:2 # text = Which word? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} happy ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper:t8:o1:1 # text = happy 1 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} slowly ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper:t8:o2:1 # text = slowly 1 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} orange ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper:t8:o3:1 # text = orange 1 orange orange NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} tall ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper:t8:o4:1 # text = tall 1 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 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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