Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the blacksmith tricks the B…

yo, what did the gatekeeper at the Good Place say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: say · To what, where: Good Place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gatekeeper	det
6	gatekeeper	gatekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 Place	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Place	det
9	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Place	amod
10	Place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	obl
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support				the Good Place			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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

no way, you're not coming in here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coming	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 coming	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 coming	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 coming	advmod
7	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 coming	advmod
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 coming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come in	present · progressive	you	no way		here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

come back later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 come	advmod
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	imperative	you not said here					late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

wait outside there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 wait	advmod
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 wait	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			there		outside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

no way, not coming in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 coming	punct
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 coming	advmod
5	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 way	appos
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 coming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come in	gerund							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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