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title: How many persons were weeping in the cellar upon the bridegroom's ar… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Els… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many persons were weeping in the cellar upon the bridegroom's arrival? Exam question 4 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 each op
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# Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick…

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How many persons were weeping in the cellar upon the bridegroom's arrival?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many persons, bridegroom · **What happens:** weep, arrive

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:e4:1
# text = How many persons were weeping in the cellar upon the bridegroom's arrival?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past · progressive | many persons |  |  |  |  | upon the bridegroom's arrival; in the cellar | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cellar=Theme |
| 2 | **arrive** |  | the bridegroom |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=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}

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Five persons and the maid, who had come down first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:e4:o1:1
# text = Five persons and the maid, who had come down first
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past · perfect | Five persons and the maid |  |  |  |  | down, first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Four persons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:e4:o2:1
# text = Four persons
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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Five persons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:e4:o3:1
# text = Five persons
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Five persons, all weeping loudly on the cellar floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:e4:o4:1
# text = Five persons, all weeping loudly on the cellar floor
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | gerund | Five persons *not said here* |  |  | the cellar floor |  | loudly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination |

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