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title: Which helps most the night before SATs? — Writing assessment and the "Year 6 pan… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which helps most the night before SATs? Test 9 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 right.
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# Test 9 · Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"

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Which helps most the night before SATs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** help

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This is test 9 of lesson 53 «Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"» 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/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic:t9:1
# text = Which helps most the night before SATs?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	2	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	SATs	sat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  | before SATs; night |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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Watching a really scary film

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic:t9:o1:1
# text = Watching a really scary film
1	Watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund |  | a scary film |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Drinking lots and lots of fizzy pop at bedtime

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic:t9:o2:1
# text = Drinking lots and lots of fizzy pop at bedtime
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | gerund |  | lots and lots of fizzy pop |  | bedtime |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Revising until three in the morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic:t9:o3:1
# text = Revising until three in the morning
1	Revising	revise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	until	until	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **revise** | gerund |  |  |  |  | until three; morning |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A good meal, a calm evening and sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic:t9:o4:1
# text = A good meal, a calm evening and sleep
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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