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title: Who is the British monarch after Elizabeth II? — Britain and Ireland: a short story · tree and pragmatics
description: Who is the British monarch after Elizabeth II? Test 10 of lesson 37 «Britain and Ireland: a short story» 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 wrong.
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# Test 10 · Britain and Ireland: a short story

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Who is the British monarch after Elizabeth II?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** British monarch

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This is test 10 of lesson 37 «Britain and Ireland: a short story» 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/37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story:t10:1
# text = Who is the British monarch after Elizabeth II?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Elizabeth	Elizabeth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the British monarch |  |  | after Elizabeth |  | tree rules |

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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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Princess Anne, her daughter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story:t10:o1:1
# text = Princess Anne, her daughter
1	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Anne	Anne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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King Charles III

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story:t10:o2:1
# text = King Charles III
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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King George VI, her father

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story:t10:o3:1
# text = King George VI, her father
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	VI	VI	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Prince William, her grandson

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:37-britain-and-ireland-a-short-story:t10:o4:1
# text = Prince William, her grandson
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	grandson	grandson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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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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