Test 13 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Hare of Inaba, part 35: the heal…

The hare was so sure the Princess would pick the fairy, real talk!

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hare, Princess · What happens: be, pick · To what, where: fairy

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1375 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Hare of Inaba, part 35: the healed hare thanks the kind man, who is a fairy, not a King's son» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hare	det
2	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sure	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sure	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 sure	advmod
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pick	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 pick	aux
9	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sure	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fairy	det
11	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pick	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 talk	punct
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 talk	amod
14	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fairy	appos
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 sure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hare					sure property	tree rules
2	pick	would	the Princess	the fairy					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Patient

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

Who would she pick?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 pick	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pick	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pick	nsubj
4	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	would							vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

What did the hare predict about the Princess's choice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 predict	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 predict	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hare	det
4	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 predict	nsubj
5	predict	predict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	10 choice	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Princess	det
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 choice	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Princess	case
10	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 predict	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 predict	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	predict	past · do-support	the hare					about the Princess's choice	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Topic

Option 3

What did the hare guess about her choice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guess	det
4	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guess	compound
5	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 choice	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 choice	nmod:poss
8	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the hare guess				about her choice	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guess=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

What did the hare foresee about her pick?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 foresee	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 foresee	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hare	det
4	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 foresee	nsubj
5	foresee	foresee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 pick	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pick	nmod:poss
8	pick	pick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 foresee	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 foresee	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	foresee	past · do-support	the hare					about hare's pick	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	pick		hare						nom pick «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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