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title: yo, what did the gatekeeper at the Good Place say? — Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the bla… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, what did the gatekeeper at the Good Place say? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the blacksmith tricks the B…

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/587-pg2306-part23/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:587-pg2306-part23:t8:1
# text = yo, what did the gatekeeper at the Good Place say?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gatekeeper	gatekeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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no way, you're not coming in here

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:587-pg2306-part23:t8:o1:1
# text = no way, you're not coming in here
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
come back later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:587-pg2306-part23:t8:o2:1
# text = come back later
1	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
wait outside there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:587-pg2306-part23:t8:o3:1
# text = wait outside there
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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no way, not coming in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:587-pg2306-part23:t8:o4:1
# text = no way, not coming in
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	appos	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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