CNaVT C1 (PAT) key terms

The central idea developed by a text, identified through its claims and qualifications instead of one repeated subject word.

A position advanced by a writer or speaker, distinguished from the topic, a reported quotation and evidence offered in its support.

A reason supporting a position, whose relevance and evidential strength should be explained rather than assumed from confident or emotional language.

A competing reason considered fairly in an analysis, not a deliberately weak objection invented only to make one conclusion seem inevitable.

A logical or functional relationship connecting textual parts, such as contrast or cause, interpreted through wording and context rather than label matching.

A concise account preserving the source’s task-relevant main claims and relationships without introducing the summary writer’s unsupported opinion or facts.

The intended audience whose knowledge, relationship and information needs shape content selection, register and explanation in a response or mediated message.

Support connecting a claim to reasons or evidence, making the inferential step explicit rather than presenting quotations as self-explanatory proof.

The coherent relationship among ideas and sections, supported by accurate reference and meaningful connections rather than connectors added mechanically.

Attribution identifying a source or borrowed wording, keeping a writer’s own reasoning distinct from quotations and paraphrases of another text.

The Dutch-speaking Flemish context within Belgium, not a separate sovereign state or automatic proof that the Netherlands’ legal institutions apply.

A border region whose cooperation, mobility and identities should be interpreted through the specific places and institutions named in a source.

Cultural heritage represented or debated through practices, places and texts, not a uniform personality automatically shared by every Dutch speaker.

The finite verb whose person, number and placement help identify Dutch clause structure, distinguished from a separate infinitive or participle.

A main clause whose ordinary declarative pattern differs from direct questions and subordinate clauses, requiring analysis of the actual construction.

A subordinate clause with characteristic verbal grouping, whose internal order cannot always be reduced to one universally final auxiliary.

Subject-verb ordering after a non-subject initial constituent in an ordinary main clause, distinguished from mechanically counting individual written words.

A past participle used within relevant Dutch verb constructions, interpreted together with its auxiliary and the meaning of the whole clause.

A diminutive noun form whose suffix and article depend on Dutch lexical and morphological patterns rather than a simple English translation.

A referring expression connected to a person, object or proposition in context, whose antecedent must fit both grammar and meaning.