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title: What did he tell the sea to do, then? — Stories of Old England, King Canute on… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did he tell the sea to do, then? Test 5 · ★ 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 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canut…

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What did he tell the sea to do, then?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** tell, do · **To what, where:** sea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:t5:1
# text = What did he tell the sea to do, then?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | he | the sea |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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Rise up now, sea!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:t5:o1:1
# text = Rise up now, sea!
1	Rise	rise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise up** | imperative | you *not said here* | sea |  |  | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Come no farther, sea, and stop your rolling right now!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:t5:o2:1
# text = Come no farther, sea, and stop your rolling right now!
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	rolling	rolling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	right	right	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sea *vocative*; far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your rolling |  |  | now |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality rolling=Eventuality |
| 3 | **roll** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom rolling «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Come no farther, sea!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:t5:o3:1
# text = Come no farther, sea!
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	no	no	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sea *vocative*; far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Come closer, sea!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:342-pg18442-part2:t5:o4:1
# text = Come closer, sea!
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	closer	close	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sea *vocative*; close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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