Test 1 · ★ · pg5615 tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: the hare drowns th…

So what did the hare actually do to the Tanuki's boat, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hare · What happens: do · To what, where: hare

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1618 «pg5615 tales, The Flying Trunk, part 1: the hare drowns the Tanuki, then a poor merchant's son flies off to the Turks» 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hare	det
5	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 do	advmod
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hare	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 boat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Tanuki	det
10	Tanuki	Tanuki	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 boat	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Tanuki	case
12	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 like	punct
14	like	like	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the hare					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Eventuality
2	do	present	the hare not said here					to the Tanuki's boat; actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Cracked it open with his oar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Cracked	obj
3	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cracked	xcomp
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 oar	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 oar	nmod:poss
6	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cracked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past		it				with his oar; open property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with oar=Instrument

Option 2

Broke it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past		it					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Smashed it in two with his oar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Smashed	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 two	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Smashed	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 oar	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 oar	nmod:poss
7	oar	oar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Smashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past		it		two		with his oar	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in two=Destination

Option 4

Smashed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Smashed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	past		it					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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