Exam question 2 · Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the blacksmith tricks the B…

Where was the blacksmith finally refused admission after his death?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: blacksmith · What happens: be, refuse, die · To what, where: admission

This is exam question 2 of lesson 587 «Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the blacksmith tricks the Bad Man and ends up as a light between heaven and earth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 refused	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 blacksmith	det
4	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 refused	nsubj
5	finally	finally	ADV	_	6 refused	advmod
6	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	admission	admission	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 refused	obj
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 death	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 death	nmod:poss
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 refused	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 refused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				where property	tree rules
2	refuse	past	the blacksmith	admission	after blacksmith's death	finally property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admission=Theme
3	die		blacksmith				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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

at the Bad Place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	4 Place	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Place	det
3	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Place	amod
4	Place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

at both the Good Place and the Bad Place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	5 Place	case
2	both	both	CCONJ	_	5 Place	cc:preconj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Place	det
4	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Place	amod
5	Place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Place	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Place	det
8	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Place	amod
9	Place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Place	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

at the gate of the Good Place only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	3 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Place	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Place	det
6	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Place	amod
7	Place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gate	nmod
8	only	only	ADV	_	7 Place	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

by both gatekeepers in heaven and hell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 gatekeepers	case
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 gatekeepers	det
3	gatekeepers	gatekeeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 heaven	case
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gatekeepers	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hell	cc
7	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heaven	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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