--- title: Why is the Hundred Years' War a funny name? — The Black Death and the end of the Mid… · tree and pragmatics description: Why is the Hundred Years' War a funny name? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 24 «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» 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 right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages/t4/) [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/) / [The Black Death and the end of the Mid…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages Why is the Hundred Years' War a funny name? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** War · **What happens:** be This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 24 «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» 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/24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t4:1 # text = Why is the Hundred Years' War a funny name? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 Years Year PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ' 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Hundred Years's War | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | 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 {#o1} It happened in 100 BC ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t4:o1:1 # text = It happened in 100 BC 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | It | | | 100 BC | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bc=Location | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} It actually lasted 116 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t4:o2:1 # text = It actually lasted 116 years 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 actually actually ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 lasted last VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 116 116 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **last** | past | It | | | | year | actually *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Nobody really fought in it ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t4:o3:1 # text = Nobody really fought in it 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 nsubj _ _ 2 really really ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight** | past | Nobody | | | it | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} It lasted only one single day ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:t4:o4:1 # text = It lasted only one single day 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lasted last VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **last** | past | It | | | | day | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | **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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