Test 9 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall t…

Did the porter say the lord had room for them?

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

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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 porter	det
3	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lord	det
6	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 room	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	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

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, there isn't room for you all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 is	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 you	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 is	advmod
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 you	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	root	root
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 you	nmod:unmarked

#	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

Yeah, there's room for all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 room	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 's	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 's	expl
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 room	cop
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 room	nmod

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

Option 3

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 is	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 room	advmod
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 is	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 room	nmod
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 room	appos
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 all	nmod
13	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	obl:unmarked

#	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

Nah, the house is full

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 full	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	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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