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title: So the painter had to climb his own painted stairs to get into heaven? — Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatr… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the painter had to climb his own painted stairs to get into heaven? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So the painter had to climb his own painted stairs to get into heaven?

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/932-pg27200-part143/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:932-pg27200-part143:t4:1
# text = So the painter had to climb his own painted stairs to get into heaven?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, he just forgot the steps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:932-pg27200-part143:t4:o1:1
# text = nah, he just forgot the steps
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, he climbed a real ladder that the stagehands had set up for him

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:932-pg27200-part143:t4:o2:1
# text = nah, he climbed a real ladder that the stagehands had set up for him
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stagehands	stagehand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, cause he messed up the perspective

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:932-pg27200-part143:t4:o3:1
# text = yeah, cause he messed up the perspective
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	messed	mess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	perspective	perspective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, he was late

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:932-pg27200-part143:t4:o4:1
# text = yeah, he was late
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | 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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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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