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title: Wot's the crowd rushin off to see down the lanes? — Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wot's the crowd rushin off to see down the lanes? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 12 · ★ · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, drea…

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Wot's the crowd rushin off to see down the lanes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wot · **What happens:** be, see down · **To what, where:** crowd rushin, lanes

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» 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/1789-pg641-part40/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t12:1
# text = Wot's the crowd rushin off to see down the lanes?
1	Wot	Wot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	rushin	rushin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lanes	lane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Wot | the crowd rushin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see down** | to-infinitive |  | the lanes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lane=Stimulus |

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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}

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A tiny giant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t12:o1:1
# text = A tiny giant
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A clown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t12:o2:1
# text = A clown
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clown	clown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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An ugly dwarf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t12:o3:1
# text = An ugly dwarf
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A travelling magician

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1789-pg641-part40:t12:o4:1
# text = A travelling magician
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	travelling	travelling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	magician	magician	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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