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title: so what was Elsie straight-up bawling about? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Els… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what was Elsie straight-up bawling about? Test 6 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick…

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so what was Elsie straight-up bawling about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Elsie · **What happens:** be, bawl · **To what, where:** Elsie

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:t6:1
# text = so what was Elsie straight-up bawling about?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
8	bawling	bawl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Elsie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bawl** *speech: other* | gerund | Elsie |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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the pick-axe falling and hitting her unborn kid's head hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:t6:o1:1
# text = the pick-axe falling and hitting her unborn kid's head hard
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	unborn	unborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | gerund | the pick axe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hit** | gerund | the pick axe *not said here* | her unborn kid's head |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the beam falling on her head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:t6:o2:1
# text = the beam falling on her head
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | gerund | the beam *not said here* |  |  | her head |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location |

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

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the pick-axe hitting her kid's head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:t6:o3:1
# text = the pick-axe hitting her kid's head
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	pick	pick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | gerund | the pick axe *not said here* | her kid's head |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the lamp hitting her kid's head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:t6:o4:1
# text = the lamp hitting her kid's head
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | gerund | the lamp *not said here* | her kid's head |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-Theme |

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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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