--- title: How did Ciccu get the golden stairs going? — Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Stor… · tree and pragmatics description: How did Ciccu get the golden stairs going? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1672-pg5615-part61/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Stor…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1672-pg5615-part61/) / t7 # 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1672-pg5615-part61/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1672-pg5615-part61:t7:1 # text = How did Ciccu get the golden stairs going? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 Ciccu Ciccu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} he ordered a stairway of gold ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1672-pg5615-part61:t7:o1:1 # text = he ordered a stairway of gold 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 stairway stairway NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 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 {#o2} he ordered a shower of gold ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1672-pg5615-part61:t7:o2:1 # text = he ordered a shower of gold 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 shower shower NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 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 {#o3} he called the gold ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1672-pg5615-part61:t7:o3:1 # text = he called the gold 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 called call 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 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 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 {#o4} he rang a silver bell ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1672-pg5615-part61:t7:o4:1 # text = he rang a silver bell 1 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 rang ring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 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 | **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. 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