---
title: A lord's castle has plenty of water and food for a year. What would… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics
description: A lord's castle has plenty of water and food for a year. What would attackers most likely find? Test 4 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/t4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [Castles, knights and cathedrals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/) / t4

# Test 4 · Castles, knights and cathedrals

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A lord's castle has plenty of water and food for a year. What would attackers most likely find?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** castle, attackers · **What happens:** have, find · **To what, where:** plenty

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 4 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 1:* A lord's castle has plenty of water and food for a year.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t4:1
# text = A lord's castle has plenty of water and food for a year.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a lord's castle | plenty of water and food for a year |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 2:* What would attackers most likely find?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t4:2
# text = What would attackers most likely find?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	attackers	attacker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | would | attackers |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The attackers would win at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t4:o1:1
# text = The attackers would win at once
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	attackers	attacker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | would | the attackers |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent at once=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The castle would fall in one day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t4:o2:1
# text = The castle would fall in one day
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | would | the castle |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A siege would take a very long time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t4:o3:1
# text = A siege would take a very long time
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | would | a siege |  |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The castle would have to surrender at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t4:o4:1
# text = The castle would have to surrender at night
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	surrender	surrender	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | the castle |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **surrender** | to-infinitive | the castle *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Castles, knights and cathedrals, test 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/t3/)
- next →: [Castles, knights and cathedrals, test 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/t5/)
- ↑ back to [Castles, knights and cathedrals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/)