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title: ok but who was reading that old book out loud? — Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the E… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok but who was reading that old book out loud? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 968 «Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179: the shipwreck and Clara's death» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 6 · ★ · Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ok but who was reading that old book out loud?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** read · **To what, where:** old book

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 968 «Mogens and Other Stories, Jurgen the Eel-Breeder, part 179: the shipwreck and Clara's death» 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/968-pg27200-part179/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:968-pg27200-part179:t6:1
# text = ok but who was reading that old book out loud?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | past · progressive |  | old book |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the harbour master who kept the old logbook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:968-pg27200-part179:t6:o1:1
# text = the harbour master who kept the old logbook
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	logbook	logbook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the harbour master | the old logbook |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent logbook=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
merchant bronne

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:968-pg27200-part179:t6:o2:1
# text = merchant bronne
1	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bronne	bronne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the schoolmaster from the village church

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:968-pg27200-part179:t6:o3:1
# text = the schoolmaster from the village church
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the old sexton

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:968-pg27200-part179:t6:o4:1
# text = the old sexton
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sexton	sexton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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