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title: Why do football clubs and towns have badges with shields and animals… — Castles, knights and cathedrals · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do football clubs and towns have badges with shields and animals today? Test 8 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 8 · Castles, knights and cathedrals

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t8:1
# text = Why do football clubs and towns have badges with shields and animals today?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	badges	badge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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They come from the coats of arms of the Middle Ages

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t8:o1:1
# text = They come from the coats of arms of the Middle Ages
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Middle	Middle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
11	Ages	Age	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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They were invented in 2000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t8:o2:1
# text = They were invented in 2000
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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Because footballers wear armour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t8:o3:1
# text = Because footballers wear armour
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	footballers	footballer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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Because kings still order it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:21-castles-knights-and-cathedrals:t8:o4:1
# text = Because kings still order it
1	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	order	order	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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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**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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