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title: my brother says knights were so heavy they got put on horses with a… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics
description: my brother says knights were so heavy they got put on horses with a crane lol Test 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 of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 1 · Castles, knights and cathedrals

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
my brother says knights were so heavy they got put on horses with a crane lol

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** brother, knights · **What happens:** say, be, put · **To what, where:** knights · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t1:1
# text = my brother says knights were so heavy they got put on horses with a crane lol
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | knights |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | past · passive |  | knights *= knight* |  |  |  | on horses; with a crane | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on horse=Destination |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, but only on Sundays

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t1:o1:1
# text = Yes, but only on Sundays
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, a knight in plate armour could climb on by himself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t1:o2:1
# text = No, a knight in plate armour could climb on by himself
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb on** | could | a knight in plate armour |  |  |  |  | by knight | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by himself=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, knights never rode horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t1:o3:1
# text = No, knights never rode horses
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **ride** | past | knights | horses |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, every knight needed a crane

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t1:o4:1
# text = Yes, every knight needed a crane
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | past | every knight | a crane |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot crane=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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