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title: Wait, how many Pygmies crowded up, like roughly? — Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 12… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, how many Pygmies crowded up, like roughly? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 2053 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 12: Hercules lifts the Giant off the ground and wins, then the Pygmies plan revenge» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 5 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 12: Hercules lifts the…

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Wait, how many Pygmies crowded up, like roughly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, crowd up · **To what, where:** many Pygmies

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2053 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 12: Hercules lifts the Giant off the ground and wins, then the Pygmies plan revenge» 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/2053-pg976-part12/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2053-pg976-part12:t5:1
# text = Wait, how many Pygmies crowded up, like roughly?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	crowded	crowd	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | many Pygmies |  |  |  | roughly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **crowd up** | participle |  | many Pygmies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |

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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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Like a small crowd.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2053-pg976-part12:t5:o1:1
# text = Like a small crowd.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Like a 27 feet square crowd, all packed in tight with their little arms raised high.

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2053-pg976-part12:t5:o2:1
# text = Like a 27 feet square crowd, all packed in tight with their little arms raised high.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
9	packed	pack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pack** | participle | all |  |  | tight |  | like a square crowd; with feet's little arms | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in tight=Destination |
| 2 | **raise** | participle |  | feet's little arms *not said here* |  |  |  | high *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like a 27 feet wide crowd.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2053-pg976-part12:t5:o3:1
# text = Like a 27 feet wide crowd.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like a 27 feet square crowd.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2053-pg976-part12:t5:o4:1
# text = Like a 27 feet square crowd.
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

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