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title: Bro, what was Hase-Hime's whole thing back then? — Japanese Fairy Book, Hase-Hime, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what was Hase-Hime's whole thing back then? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1353 «Japanese Fairy Book, Hase-Hime, part 13: the poison kills the stepmother's son, and Hase-Hime's father finds her in the mountains» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Book, Hase-Hime, part 13: the poison kills…

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Bro, what was Hase-Hime's whole thing back then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** whole thing

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1353 «Japanese Fairy Book, Hase-Hime, part 13: the poison kills the stepmother's son, and Hase-Hime's father finds her in the mountains» 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/1353-pg4018-part13/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1353-pg4018-part13:t4:1
# text = Bro, what was Hase-Hime's whole thing back then?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
5	Hase	Hase	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Hime	Hime	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bro | Hase Hime's whole thing |  |  | then |  | tree rules |

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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}

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Sewing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1353-pg4018-part13:t4:o1:1
# text = Sewing
1	Sewing	sewing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Reading

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1353-pg4018-part13:t4:o2:1
# text = Reading
1	Reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Writing poems

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1353-pg4018-part13:t4:o3:1
# text = Writing poems
1	Writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | gerund |  | poems |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Painting birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1353-pg4018-part13:t4:o4:1
# text = Painting birds
1	Painting	paint	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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**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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