Test 7 · ★ · Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61:…

How did Ciccu get the golden stairs going?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ciccu, golden stairs · What happens: get, go · To what, where: golden stairs

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1672 «Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61: the princess begs Ciccu's purse for a copy» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stairs	det
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stairs	amod
7	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obj
8	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 get	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	Ciccu	the golden stairs					tree rules
2	go	gerund	the golden stairs not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

he ordered a stairway of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stairway	det
4	stairway	stairway	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ordered	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 gold	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stairway	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	he	a stairway of gold					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stairway=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he ordered a shower of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shower	det
4	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ordered	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 gold	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shower	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	he	a shower of gold					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shower=Theme

Option 3

he called the gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	he	the gold					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gold=Recipient

Option 4

he rang a silver bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rang	nsubj
2	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bell	det
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bell	compound
5	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past	he	a silver bell					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme

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