Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 68: Rudy reaches In…
No cap, what were the swallows singing at him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap, swallows · What happens: be, sing · To what, where: swallows
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 857 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 68: Rudy reaches Interlachen, wins the shooting match and meets Babette again» 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 swallows | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 swallows | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 swallows | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 swallows | det |
| 7 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cap | appos |
| 8 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 swallows | acl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 singing | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 cap | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | no cap | the swallows | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | the swallows not said here | at him = he | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location |
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
You and we, we and you!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 you | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 you | cc |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 you | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 we | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 you | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 you | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 you | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Hello, Rudy, hello!
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hello | hello | INTJ | _ | 3 Rudy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rudy | punct |
| 3 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hello | punct |
| 5 | hello | hello | INTJ | _ | 3 Rudy | flat |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rudy | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Sing, Rudy, sing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rudy | punct |
| 3 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sing | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sing | punct |
| 5 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sing | conj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sing | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
"We and you--you and we."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 We | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 you | cc |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 We | conj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 you | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 We | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 we | cc |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 you | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 We | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 We | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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