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title: Is grandpapa really reading, or making it up? — Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's N… · tree and pragmatics
description: Is grandpapa really reading, or making it up? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a…

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Is grandpapa really reading, or making it up?

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/915-pg27200-part126/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:915-pg27200-part126:t12:1
# text = Is grandpapa really reading, or making it up?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	grandpapa	grandpapa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	csubj	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Making it up while pretending to read

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:915-pg27200-part126:t12:o1:1
# text = Making it up while pretending to read
1	Making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |
| 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 {#o2}

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Reading it aloud from a book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:915-pg27200-part126:t12:o2:1
# text = Reading it aloud from a book
1	Reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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Making it up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:915-pg27200-part126:t12:o3:1
# text = Making it up
1	Making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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Reading from an old German book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:915-pg27200-part126:t12:o4:1
# text = Reading from an old German book
1	Reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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