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title: Where was the blacksmith finally refused admission after his death? — Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the bla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where was the blacksmith finally refused admission after his death? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Exam question 2 · Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the blacksmith tricks the B…

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Where was the blacksmith finally refused admission after his death?

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/587-pg2306-part23/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:587-pg2306-part23:e2:1
# text = Where was the blacksmith finally refused admission after his death?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	admission	admission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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

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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}

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at the Bad Place

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:587-pg2306-part23:e2:o1:1
# text = at the Bad Place
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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at both the Good Place and the Bad Place

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:587-pg2306-part23:e2:o2:1
# text = at both the Good Place and the Bad Place
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc:preconj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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at the gate of the Good Place only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:587-pg2306-part23:e2:o3:1
# text = at the gate of the Good Place only
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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by both gatekeepers in heaven and hell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:587-pg2306-part23:e2:o4:1
# text = by both gatekeepers in heaven and hell
1	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	gatekeepers	gatekeeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hell	hell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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