Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy cro…

Wicked, what were the swallows chirping at him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wicked swallows · What happens: be, chirp · To what, where: Wicked swallows

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 854 «Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy crosses the mountains and reaches his uncle's house» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 swallows	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 swallows	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swallows	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swallows	det
6	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	chirping	chirp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 swallows	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chirping	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 swallows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Wicked swallows					tree rules
2	chirp	gerund	the Wicked swallows not said here					at him = he	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at he=Stimulus

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

We and you--you and we

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 you	cc
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 We	conj
4	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 you	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 We	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 we	cc
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 We	conj

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

Option 2

Hello, hello

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hello	hello	INTJ	_	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hello	punct
3	hello	hello	INTJ	_	1 Hello	goeswith

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

Option 3

Hurrah for the sunny sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hurrah	Hurrah	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 sky	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sky	det
4	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sky	amod
5	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hurrah	nmod

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

Option 4

Come on, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADV	_	1 Come	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Come	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come on	imperative	you not said here					mate vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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