Test 8 · Castles, knights and cathedrals

Why do football clubs and towns have badges with shields and animals today?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: football clubs · What happens: have · To what, where: badges

This is test 8 of lesson 21 «Castles, knights and cathedrals» of the history 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 have	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clubs	aux
3	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clubs	compound
4	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 towns	cc
6	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clubs	conj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	badges	badge	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 shields	case
10	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 badges	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 animals	cc
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shields	conj
13	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obl:unmarked
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	football clubs and towns	badges			today	with shields and animals	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badge=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

They come from the coats of arms of the Middle Ages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 coats	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coats	det
5	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 arms	case
7	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 coats	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Ages	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Ages	det
10	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Ages	flat
11	Ages	Age	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 arms	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	They			the coats of arms of the Middle Ages			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from coat=Initial_Location

Option 2

They were invented in 2000

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 invented	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invented	aux:pass
3	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 2000	case
5	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 invented	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past · passive		They		2000			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Because footballers wear armour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 wear	mark
2	footballers	footballer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wear	nsubj
3	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present	footballers	armour					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent armour=Source

Option 4

Because kings still order it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 order	mark
2	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 order	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 order	advmod
4	order	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 order	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	present	kings	it			still		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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