Test 9 · ★ · Old Calabash, The Little Hare and Big Lion, part 59: the h…

bro, why'd the hare cut off his ears?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hare · What happens: cut off · To what, where: ears

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1670 «Old Calabash, The Little Hare and Big Lion, part 59: the hare tricks the lion, then the hyaenas» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 why	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 hare	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hare	det
6	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 why	appos
7	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hare	acl
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 cut	compound:prt
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ears	nmod:poss
10	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cut	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	participle	the hare not said here	hare's ears					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ear=Eventuality

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

So the hyaenas would not recognize him as the hare who had tricked their whole tribe in the valley

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 recognize	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hyaenas	det
3	hyaenas	hyaena	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 recognize	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 recognize	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 recognize	advmod
6	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 recognize	obj
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 hare	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hare	det
10	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recognize	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 tricked	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tricked	aux
13	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 hare	acl:relcl
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tribe	nmod:poss
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tribe	amod
16	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tricked	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 valley	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 valley	det
19	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not recognize	would	the hyaenas	him = he				as the hare	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus as hare=Attribute
2	trick	past · perfect · passive		the hare		the valley			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

So the hyaenas would not recognize him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 recognize	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hyaenas	det
3	hyaenas	hyaena	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 recognize	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 recognize	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 recognize	advmod
6	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 recognize	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not recognize	would	the hyaenas	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3

So they would not see him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	would	they	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

So the hyaenas would not recognize him when he came back to the pot with the lion's skin on

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 recognize	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hyaenas	det
3	hyaenas	hyaena	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 recognize	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 recognize	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 recognize	advmod
6	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 recognize	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 recognize	advcl
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 came	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 pot	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pot	det
14	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 skin	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lion	det
17	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 skin	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 lion	case
19	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pot	nmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	10 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not recognize	would	the hyaenas	him = he					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	come back	past	he			the pot with the lion's skin			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pot=Initial_Location

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