--- title: Wicked, what were the swallows chirping at him? — Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maide… · tree and pragmatics description: Wicked, what were the swallows chirping at him? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/854-pg27200-part65/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maide…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/854-pg27200-part65/) / t3 # 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/854-pg27200-part65/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t3:1 # text = Wicked, what were the swallows chirping at him? 1 Wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 swallows swallow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 chirping chirp VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} We and you--you and we ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t3:o1:1 # 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 _ SpaceAfter=No 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 _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Hello, hello ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t3:o2:1 # text = Hello, hello 1 Hello hello INTJ UH _ 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 hello hello INTJ UH _ 1 goeswith _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Hurrah for the sunny sky ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t3:o3:1 # text = Hurrah for the sunny sky 1 Hurrah Hurrah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 sunny sunny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Come on, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:854-pg27200-part65:t3:o4:1 # text = Come on, mate 1 Come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 on on ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 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. 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