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title: bruh, what was the whole crew upstairs waiting for? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Els… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh, what was the whole crew upstairs waiting for? Test 10 · ★ 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 option; Mova's choice was wro
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# Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick…

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bruh, what was the whole crew upstairs waiting for?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** whole crew · **What happens:** be, wait · **To what, where:** whole crew

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This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:t10:1
# text = bruh, what was the whole crew upstairs waiting for?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the whole crew |  |  |  | upstairs *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | the whole crew *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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the dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:t10:o1:1
# text = the dinner
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:t10:o2:1
# text = the bread
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the dinner and the bridegroom's arrival

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:t10:o3:1
# text = the dinner and the bridegroom's arrival
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** |  | the bridegroom |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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

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the beer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:t10:o4:1
# text = the beer
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beer	beer	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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