--- title: No cap, what were the swallows singing at him? — Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part… · tree and pragmatics description: No cap, what were the swallows singing at him? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/857-pg27200-part68/t4/) [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/) / [Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/857-pg27200-part68/) / t4 # 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/857-pg27200-part68/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:857-pg27200-part68:t4:1 # text = No cap, what were the swallows singing at him? 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 swallows swallow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ _ 8 singing sing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} You and we, we and you! ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:857-pg27200-part68:t4:o1:1 # text = You and we, we and you! 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 3 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Hello, Rudy, hello! ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:857-pg27200-part68:t4:o2:1 # text = Hello, Rudy, hello! 1 Hello hello INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 Rudy Rudy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 hello hello INTJ UH _ 3 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Sing, Rudy, sing. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:857-pg27200-part68:t4:o3:1 # text = Sing, Rudy, sing. 1 Sing sing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 Rudy Rudy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 sing sing NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} "We and you--you and we." ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:857-pg27200-part68:t4:o4:1 # text = "We and you--you and we." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 -- -- PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 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. - ← previous: [Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part…, test 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/857-pg27200-part68/t3/) - next →: [Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part…, test 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/857-pg27200-part68/t5/) - ↑ back to [Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 68: Rudy reaches Interlachen, wins the shooting match and meets Babette again](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/857-pg27200-part68/)