Test 8 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidd…

Why did the farmer's wife take her on, for real?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: take on · To what, where: farmer

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1092 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidden in her donkey skin, works at a farm and the Prince spies on her» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 take	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wife	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 farmer	case
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	nsubj
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 take	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	7 take	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 real	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 real	case
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 take	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take on	past · do-support	the farmer's wife	farmer					vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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

she looked strong and willing to work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 willing	cc
5	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 strong	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 work	mark
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 willing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	she					strong property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	work	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she needed help with the dishes and geese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needed	nsubj
2	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needed	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 dishes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dishes	det
6	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 needed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 geese	cc
8	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dishes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	she	help				with the dishes and geese	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

she was a poor girl with nowhere to go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 girl	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 girl	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 girl	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 nowhere	case
7	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 girl	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nowhere	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a poor girl				nowhere property	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

the king had paid her well to keep the poor girl employed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 paid	aux
4	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	obj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 paid	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 paid	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 girl	amod
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obj
12	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pay	past · perfect	the king	her = she	well property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Asset
2	keep	to-infinitive	the king not said here	the poor girl		tree rules
3	employ	participle	the poor girl not said here			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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