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title: what were the swallows singing, bruh? — Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: what were the swallows singing, bruh? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 852 «Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy and prosperous, and the story turns to Switzerland and the boy Rudy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy an…

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what were the swallows singing, bruh?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** swallows · **What happens:** sing

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 852 «Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy and prosperous, and the story turns to Switzerland and the boy Rudy» 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/852-pg27200-part63/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:852-pg27200-part63:t9:1
# text = what were the swallows singing, bruh?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	swallows	swallow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive | the swallows |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=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 {#o1}

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hi, hi, hi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:852-pg27200-part63:t9:o1:1
# text = hi, hi, hi
1	hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	hi	hi	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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we and you, you and we

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:852-pg27200-part63:t9:o2:1
# text = we and you, you and we
1	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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up and down, down and up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:852-pg27200-part63:t9:o3:1
# text = up and down, down and up
1	up	up	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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you and I, I and you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:852-pg27200-part63:t9:o4:1
# text = you and I, I and you
1	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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