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title: Dead funny, who cried hurrahs for the wedding? — Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead funny, who cried hurrahs for the wedding? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1619 «Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born and learns about the sun, the moon and the weather» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born…

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Dead funny, who cried hurrahs for the wedding?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** cry · **To what, where:** hurrahs

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1619 «Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born and learns about the sun, the moon and the weather» 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/1619-pg5615-part8/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1619-pg5615-part8:t12:1
# text = Dead funny, who cried hurrahs for the wedding?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	hurrahs	hurrah	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | hurrahs |  |  |  | for the wedding | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The local farmers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1619-pg5615-part8:t12:o1:1
# text = The local farmers
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The street boys, who had been waiting all morning by the gate with their caps

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1619-pg5615-part8:t12:o2:1
# text = The street boys, who had been waiting all morning by the gate with their caps
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	caps	cap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past · perfect · progressive | the street boys |  |  |  | morning | by the gate; with boys's caps | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by gate=Location |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The street boys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1619-pg5615-part8:t12:o3:1
# text = The street boys
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The neighbours all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1619-pg5615-part8:t12:o4:1
# text = The neighbours all
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

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