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title: Identify the manner in which Year 6 writing is assessed in England. — Writing assessment and the "Year 6 pan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the manner in which Year 6 writing is assessed in England. Exam question 1 of lesson 53 «Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"» 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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# Exam question 1 · Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"

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Identify the manner in which Year 6 writing is assessed in England.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, assess · **To what, where:** manner, Year writing

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 53 «Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"» 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/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic:e1:1
# text = Identify the manner in which Year 6 writing is assessed in England.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
6	Year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	assessed	assess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the manner |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent manner=Theme |
| 2 | **assess** | present · passive |  | Year writing |  | the manner |  | in England | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Computer marking of one composition

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic:e1:o1:1
# text = Computer marking of one composition
1	Computer	computer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	marking	marking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	composition	composition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** |  |  | one composition |  |  |  |  | nom marking «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Teacher assessment of work across the year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic:e1:o2:1
# text = Teacher assessment of work across the year
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	assessment	assessment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	across	across	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assess** |  |  | work |  |  | across the year |  | nom assessment «cognition transitive»: of=patient across=obl |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A single timed examination in May

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic:e1:o3:1
# text = A single timed examination in May
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	timed	time	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	examination	examination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **time** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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External assessment of one paragraph

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic:e1:o4:1
# text = External assessment of one paragraph
1	External	external	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	assessment	assessment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	paragraph	paragraph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assess** |  |  | one paragraph |  |  |  |  | nom assessment «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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