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title: Upon finding the company weeping, what did the bridegroom ultimately… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Els… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon finding the company weeping, what did the bridegroom ultimately decide to do? Exam question 3 of lesson 757 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick-axe and wins Hans» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick…

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Upon finding the company weeping, what did the bridegroom ultimately decide to do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** company weeping · **What happens:** find, do, decide · **To what, where:** company weeping, bridegroom

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 757 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick-axe and wins Hans» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/757-pg2591-part33/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:e3:1
# text = Upon finding the company weeping, what did the bridegroom ultimately decide to do?
1	Upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	decide	decide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund |  | the company weeping |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weeping=Topic |
| 2 | **do** | past | the company weeping | the bridegroom |  |  |  | ultimately *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Eventuality |
| 3 | **decide** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Take Elsie home and feed her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:e3:o1:1
# text = Take Elsie home and feed her
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | Elsie |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument elsie=Theme home=Destination |
| 2 | **feed** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | Elsie |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lead Elsie upstairs and wed her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:e3:o2:1
# text = Lead Elsie upstairs and wed her
1	Lead	lead	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wed	w	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | imperative | you *not said here* | Elsie |  |  |  | upstairs *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elsie=Theme |
| 2 | **w** | past | you *not said here* | Elsie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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Take Elsie upstairs and marry her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:e3:o3:1
# text = Take Elsie upstairs and marry her
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	marry	marry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | Elsie |  |  | upstairs *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument elsie=Destination |
| 2 | **marry** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Elsie |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Take Elsie upstairs, kiss her, and marry her in the hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:e3:o4:1
# text = Take Elsie upstairs, kiss her, and marry her in the hall
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	marry	marry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | Elsie |  |  | upstairs *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument elsie=Destination |
| 2 | **kiss** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Elsie |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **marry** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Elsie |  | the hall |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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