Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare…

So the painter had to climb his own painted stairs to get into heaven?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: painter · What happens: have, climb, paint, get · To what, where: own painted stairs, heaven

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 932 «Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare, and a legacy» 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	_	4 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 painter	det
3	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 climb	mark
6	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stairs	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stairs	amod
9	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 stairs	amod
10	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 climb	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 climb	advcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 heaven	case
14	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	the painter			tree rules
2	climb	to-infinitive	the painter not said here	painter's own painted stairs		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location stair=Theme
3	paint	participle				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	to-infinitive	the painter not said here		heaven	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into heaven=Destination

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

nah, he just forgot the steps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 forgot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 forgot	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 forgot	advmod
5	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 steps	det
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	he	the steps					tree rules

Option 2

nah, he climbed a real ladder that the stagehands had set up for him

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 climbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climbed	nsubj
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ladder	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ladder	amod
7	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 set	nsubj:pass
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stagehands	det
10	stagehands	stagehand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 set	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 set	aux
12	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ladder	acl:relcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 set	compound:prt
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	he	a real ladder					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ladder=Theme
2	set up	past · perfect · passive		a real ladder				for him = he	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for he=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, cause he messed up the perspective

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 messed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 messed	punct
3	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 messed	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 messed	nsubj
5	messed	mess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 messed	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 perspective	det
8	perspective	perspective	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 messed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mess up	past	he	the perspective					tree rules

Option 4

yeah, he was late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 late	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 late	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 late	cop
5	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					late property	tree rules

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