Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three son…

so did the servants catch her easy or was it a total mess, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: servants, it · What happens: catch, be, innit · To what, where: easy, total mess

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1713 «Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three sons guard the magic fruit» 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	_	5 catch	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 catch	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servants	det
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 catch	nsubj
5	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 easy	nmod:poss
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 catch	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 mess	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mess	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mess	nsubj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mess	det
12	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mess	amod
13	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 catch	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 catch	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 catch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	catch	past · do-support	the servants	her easy	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent easy=Theme
2	is a	past	it	a total mess	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive	the servants not said here		tree rules

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 kept escaping from the servants over and over again

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	escaping	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 servants	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 servants	det
6	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 escaping	obl
7	over	over	ADV	_	3 escaping	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 over	cc
9	over	over	ADV	_	7 over	conj
10	again	again	ADV	_	3 escaping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she						tree rules
2	escape	gerund	she not said here			the servants	again	over property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from servant=Initial_Location

Option 2

she kept running away

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 running	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she						tree rules
2	run away	gerund	she not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she kept escaping

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	escaping	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she						tree rules
2	escape	gerund	she not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they caught her fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	obj
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 caught	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	they	her = she				fast property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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