Test 5 · ★ · Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canut…

What did he tell the sea to do, then?

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

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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 then	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 do	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	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

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Rise up now, sea!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rise	rise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Rise	compound:prt
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Rise	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sea	punct
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rise	obl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Rise	punct

#	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

Come no farther, sea, and stop your rolling right now!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	ADV	_	3 farther	advmod
3	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sea	punct
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Come	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stop	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stop	cc
8	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 rolling	nmod:poss
10	rolling	rolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stop	obj
11	right	right	ADV	_	12 now	advmod
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 stop	advmod
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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

Come no farther, sea!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	ADV	_	3 farther	advmod
3	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Come	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sea	punct
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Come	vocative
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

#	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

Come closer, sea!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Come	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sea	punct
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Come	vocative
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

#	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

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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