--- title: A boy of seven is sent to serve in a lord's household to learn manne… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics description: A boy of seven is sent to serve in a lord's household to learn manners. What is he now? Test 7 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. --- [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/t7/) [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/) / t7 # Test 7 · Castles, knights and cathedrals A boy of seven is sent to serve in a lord's household to learn manners. What is he now? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** send, serve, learn, be · **To what, where:** boy, manners This is test 7 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A boy of seven is sent to serve in a lord's household to learn manners. ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t7:1 # text = A boy of seven is sent to serve in a lord's household to learn manners. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 household household NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 16 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | present · passive | | a boy of seven | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **serve** | to-infinitive | | | | | | in a lord's household | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in household=Attribute | | 3 | **learn** | to-infinitive | | manners | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Topic | 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. *Sentence 2:* What is he now? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t7:2 # text = What is he now? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nsubj _ _ 4 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | boy | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} A squire ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t7:o1:1 # text = A squire 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 squire squire NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} A knight ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t7:o2:1 # text = A knight 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} A page ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t7:o3:1 # text = A page 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 page page NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} A great lord ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t7:o4:1 # text = A great lord 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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