--- title: Which monarch, following his dream, achieved victory within the stip… — Stories of Old England, King Canute on… · tree and pragmatics description: Which monarch, following his dream, achieved victory within the stipulated period of seven days? Exam question 3 of lesson 342 «Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canute orders the sea to stop and gets soaked» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/342-pg18442-part2/e3/) [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/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Stories of Old England, King Canute on…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/342-pg18442-part2/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canut… Which monarch, following his dream, achieved victory within the stipulated period of seven days? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** monarch, his · **What happens:** follow, achieve, stipulate, dream · **To what, where:** dream This is exam question 3 of lesson 342 «Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canute orders the sea to stop and gets soaked» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/books/342-pg18442-part2/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:e3:1 # text = Which monarch, following his dream, achieved victory within the stipulated period of seven days? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 monarch monarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 achieved achieve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 victory victory NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 10 within within ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 stipulated stipulate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | gerund | which monarch and achieved victory within the stipulated period of seven days *not said here* | his dream | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Theme | | 2 | **achieve** | participle | | | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stipulate** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **dream** | | his *= he* | | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} King Alfred the Great ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:e3:o1:1 # text = King Alfred the Great 1 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Alfred Alfred PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} King Edward the Elder ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:e3:o2:1 # text = King Edward the Elder 1 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Edward Edward PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Elder Elder PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Alfred ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:e3:o3:1 # text = Alfred 1 Alfred Alfred PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} King Canute ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:e3:o4:1 # text = King Canute 1 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Canute Canute PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` 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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