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title: Did the porter say the lord had room for them? — Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robber… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the porter say the lord had room for them? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 2003 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall tale and the gold returned» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was w
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# Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall t…

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Did the porter say the lord had room for them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** porter, lord · **What happens:** say, have · **To what, where:** room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 2003 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall tale and the gold returned» 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/2003-pg7885-part22/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2003-pg7885-part22:t9:1
# text = Did the porter say the lord had room for them?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	porter	porter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 porter |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | past | the lord | room |  |  |  | for them *= they* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Nah, there isn't room for you all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2003-pg7885-part22:t9:o1:1
# text = Nah, there isn't room for you all
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | room |  |  |  |  | for you; all *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Yeah, there's room for all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2003-pg7885-part22:t9:o2:1
# text = Yeah, there's room for all
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | room |  |  |  | for all | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nah, there isn't room for you all in the house tonight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2003-pg7885-part22:t9:o3:1
# text = Nah, there isn't room for you all in the house tonight
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	appos	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | room for you |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nah, the house is full

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2003-pg7885-part22:t9:o4:1
# text = Nah, the house is full
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	full	full	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** | present | the house |  |  |  |  | full *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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