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title: Identify the obligation customarily owed by a lord to the sovereign… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the obligation customarily owed by a lord to the sovereign in exchange for a grant of land under the feudal arrangement. Exam question 1 of lesson 21 «Castles, knights and cathedrals» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 1 · Castles, knights and cathedrals

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Identify the obligation customarily owed by a lord to the sovereign in exchange for a grant of land under the feudal arrangement.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, owe, grant · **To what, where:** obligation, exchange, land

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 21 «Castles, knights and cathedrals» of the history 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/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:e1:1
# text = Identify the obligation customarily owed by a lord to the sovereign in exchange for a grant of land under the feudal arrangement.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	obligation	obligation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	customarily	customarily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	owed	owe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	grant	grant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	feudal	feudal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the obligation |  | exchange |  | for a grant of land; under the feudal arrangement | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent obligation=Theme |
| 2 | **owe** | participle |  | the obligation *not said here* |  |  |  | by a lord to the sovereign; customarily *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grant** |  |  | land |  |  |  |  | nom grant «possession transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The surrender of his coat of arms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:e1:o1:1
# text = The surrender of his coat of arms
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	surrender	surrender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surrender** |  |  | his coat of arms |  |  |  |  | nom surrender «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The payment of all peasants' wages

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:e1:o2:1
# text = The payment of all peasants' wages
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** |  |  | all peasants's wages |  |  |  |  | nom payment «possession transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The construction of cathedrals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:e1:o3:1
# text = The construction of cathedrals
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	cathedrals	cathedral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **construct** |  |  | cathedrals |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The provision of soldiers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:e1:o4:1
# text = The provision of soldiers
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	provision	provision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** |  | soldiers |  |  |  |  |  | nom provision «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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