---
title: What time did the soldiers line up, innit? — Stories of Old England, King Canute on… · tree and pragmatics
description: What time did the soldiers line up, innit? Test 12 · ★ 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 c
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/342-pg18442-part2/t12/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / t12

# Test 12 · ★ · Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canut…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What time did the soldiers line up, innit?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** time, soldiers · **What happens:** do, line up, innit

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:t12:1
# text = What time did the soldiers line up, innit?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	line	line	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what time |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **line up** | present | the soldiers |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **innit** | infinitive | the soldiers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nine o'clock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:t12:o1:1
# text = Nine o'clock
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ten o'clock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:t12:o2:1
# text = Ten o'clock
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nine o'clock at night, by the light of the moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:t12:o3:1
# text = Nine o'clock at night, by the light of the moon
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** |  |  | the moon |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Eight o'clock

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:t12:o4:1
# text = Eight o'clock
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Stories of Old England, King Canute on…, test 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/342-pg18442-part2/t11/)
- next →: [Stories of Old England, King Canute on…, test 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/342-pg18442-part2/t13/)
- ↑ back to [Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canute orders the sea to stop and gets soaked](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/342-pg18442-part2/)