Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Hare of Inaba, part 35: the heal…

Those crocs were totally salty, they yanked all his fur out!

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crocs · What happens: be, yank out · To what, where: fur

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 crocs	det
2	crocs	croc	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 salty	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 salty	cop
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 salty	advmod
5	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 yanked	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 yanked	nsubj
8	yanked	yank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 salty	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 fur	det:predet
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fur	nmod:poss
11	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yanked	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	8 yanked	compound:prt
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 salty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that crocs					salty, totally property	tree rules
2	yank out	past	crocs = croc	his fur					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent fur=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 · ← Mova's choice

What did the crocs do to the hare afterward?

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	4 crocs	det
4	crocs	croc	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 hare	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hare	det
8	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
9	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the crocs					to the hare; afterward property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

What did the crocs do to the hare as payback?

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	4 crocs	det
4	crocs	croc	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 hare	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hare	det
8	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 payback	case
10	payback	payback	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the crocs					to the hare; as payback	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

How did the crocs punish the hare for mocking?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 punish	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 punish	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crocs	det
4	crocs	croc	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 punish	nsubj
5	punish	punish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hare	det
7	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 punish	obj
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 mocking	mark
9	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 punish	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 punish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	past · do-support	the crocs	the hare					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Patient
2	mock	gerund	the crocs not said here						vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

What was payback?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 payback	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 payback	cop
3	payback	payback	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 payback	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		payback					tree rules

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