Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a…

Is grandpapa really reading, or making it up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, read, make up · To what, where: grandpapa

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 915 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a silly pretend play, then the strange street of pepper clerks» of the books 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grandpapa	cop
2	grandpapa	grandpapa	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reading	csubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 reading	advmod
4	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 making	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 making	cc
7	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 reading	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 making	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 making	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reading	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	grandpapa	tree rules
2	read	gerund		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make up	gerund	grandpapa	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot

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

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Making it up while pretending to read

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Making	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Making	compound:prt
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 pretending	mark
5	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Making	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 read	mark
7	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pretending	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	make up	gerund	it	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot
2	pretend	gerund		tree rules
3	read	to-infinitive		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Reading it aloud from a book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Reading	obj
3	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	1 Reading	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 book	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 book	det
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund		it		a book		aloud property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Topic from book=Source

Option 3

Making it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Making	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Making	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	gerund		it					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot

Option 4

Reading from an old German book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	6 book	case
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 book	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 book	amod
5	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 book	amod
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund				a old German book			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from book=Source

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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