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title: Those crocs were totally salty, they yanked all his fur out! — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Hare of Inab… · tree and pragmatics
description: Those crocs were totally salty, they yanked all his fur out! 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 3 · ★ · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Hare of Inaba, part 35: the heal…

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1375-pg4018-part35/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1375-pg4018-part35:t3:1
# text = Those crocs were totally salty, they yanked all his fur out!
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	crocs	croc	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	yanked	yank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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What did the crocs do to the hare afterward?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1375-pg4018-part35:t3:o1:1
# text = What did the crocs do to the hare afterward?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crocs	croc	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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What did the crocs do to the hare as payback?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1375-pg4018-part35:t3:o2:1
# text = What did the crocs do to the hare as payback?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crocs	croc	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	payback	payback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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How did the crocs punish the hare for mocking?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1375-pg4018-part35:t3:o3:1
# text = How did the crocs punish the hare for mocking?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crocs	croc	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	punish	punish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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What was payback?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1375-pg4018-part35:t3:o4:1
# text = What was payback?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	payback	payback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

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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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