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title: Who did Alfred's lot beat, bruv? — Stories of Old England, King Canute on… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who did Alfred's lot beat, bruv? Test 10 · ★ 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 and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canut…

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Who did Alfred's lot beat, bruv?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** lot beat

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This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:t10:1
# text = Who did Alfred's lot beat, bruv?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | Alfred's lot beat |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Eventuality |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The Danes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:t10:o1:1
# text = The Danes
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Danes	Dane	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Franks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:t10:o2:1
# text = The Franks
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Franks	frank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Romans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:t10:o3:1
# text = Romans
1	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Saxons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:t10:o4:1
# text = Saxons
1	Saxons	saxon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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