Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canute orders the sea to stop and gets soaked
Tests: 5 of 13 right · Exam: 1 of 4 right · Kind: ★ · Understood: 7 of 17 · Run: 2026-10-18, commit f3c23ea72
Lesson 342 of the books course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose.
Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: the lesson's questions in the corpora.
Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗
Oi, who was Canute, innit?
- 1. A soldier — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A Dane who got made king — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. A king who was a Saxon — no support
- 4. A Saxon — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 2 · ★ · wrong ✗
Bruv, what were his mates always going on about?
- 1. How he was the bravest bloke — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. How he was rich — no support
- 3. How he was the greatest man ever — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. How he could sail the seas — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 3 · ★ · right ✓
Why did Canute get so fed up with them, mate?
- 1. They were talking pure rubbish — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. They were talking proper nonsense — no support
- 3. They were talking pure rubbish and wasting all his time at the seaside — no support
- 4. They were being really annoying — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗
So what did Canute do to sort them out?
- 1. Moved his chair to the hill — no support
- 2. Parked his chair right down by the water's edge and waited — no support
- 3. Ordered his servants to carry his chair up the cliff to the castle — ← Mova's choice · score 7
- 4. Parked his chair by the water — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what is done. It chose option 3 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 342, line 14: «He said, "I shall never wear it again", so he gave up being a king who thinks he rules everything.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+4); the same action «say» (+2); the same doer «canute» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did he tell the sea to do, then?
- 1. Rise up now, sea! — ← Mova's choice · score -2
- 2. Come no farther, sea, and stop your rolling right now! — no support
- 3. Come no farther, sea! — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Come closer, sea! — no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score -2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 342, line 16: «Old word: "bade" means ordered or told, so "he bade them set his chair" means he ordered them to set it.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1); a different doer (counts against) (-2). The right option, 3, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 6 · ★ · wrong ✗
Did the tide actually listen, mate?
- 1. Nah, it went out — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Nah, it stayed still — no support
- 3. Nah, it came in higher — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. Yeah, it stopped — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 7 · ★ · right ✓
What got soaked apart from his feet?
- 1. His boots, wet — no support
- 2. His cloak, a bit damp — no support
- 3. His hat, dry — no support
- 4. His robe, proper wet — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 180, line 9: «How they treat him: they make him sit on "a seat that was higher than their own, though my proper place was at their feet."», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same property (+2); the same place «feet» (+1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗
What did he chuck down on the sand?
- 1. His crown — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. His royal crown and his sceptre from his chair — no support
- 3. His sword — no support
- 4. His golden crown, which he had worn all day — ← Mova's choice · score 0
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 4 with score 0, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 342, line 13: «Canute took off his crown and threw it down "upon the sand".», reached through a sentence linked to the one the question matched. What matched: it fills the role the question asks for (+2); the same thing acted on «crown» (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-3). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗
Why did he say he would never wear it again, innit?
- 1. It was too heavy — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. He learned only one King rules the sea — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. He thought it was silly — no support
- 4. It got soaked and ruined — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 10 · ★ · right ✓
Who did Alfred's lot beat, bruv?
- 1. The Danes — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. The Franks — no support
- 3. Romans — no support
- 4. Saxons — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗
How long did Alfred get to win, mate?
- 1. Two days — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. Seven days — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 3. Nine days — no support
- 4. Ten days — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 12 · ★ · right ✓
What time did the soldiers line up, innit?
- 1. Nine o'clock — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · score 3
- 2. Ten o'clock — score 3
- 3. Nine o'clock at night, by the light of the moon — no support
- 4. Eight o'clock — score 3
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 3, tied with another option at 3 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 15, line 4: «The Queen sees the half-painted roses and orders the gardeners' heads off. Alice quickly hides them in a big flower-pot; the soldiers can't find them and simpl…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «find» (+2); the same doer «soldiers» (+1); it fills the role the question asks for (+1). Against it: one says «not», the other does not (counts against) (-1). · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Test 13 · ★ · right ✓
How did the Danes feel when the horn went, bruv?
- 1. Proper scared — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. Quite amused — no support
- 3. Proper scared and running off to hide in the hills — no support
- 4. Proper happy — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗
With reference to the text, what was the outcome of King Canute's command to the sea?
- 1. The sea obeyed at first, but then rose far above the king and drowned his entire court — score 6
- 2. The tide stopped for a moment, then rose higher and soaked the king's robe — ← Mova's choice · score 11
- 3. The sea ignored the king's words — score 7
- 4. The tide continued to rise and wetted the king's robe — ✓ the right answer · score 9
Why: It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 2 with score 11, against 9 for the next best. Its support: lesson 342, line 3: «He sits his chair on the beach and orders the sea to stop, but the tide keeps rising and soaks his robe.», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «soak» (+6); the same doer «tide» (+3); the same thing acted on «robe» (+2). The right option, 4, scored 9. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 2 · formal language · wrong ✗
According to the account, what did King Canute deposit upon the sand?
- 1. His sceptre — ← Mova's choice · no support
- 2. A ring — no support
- 3. His crown — ✓ the right answer · no support
- 4. His hat — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 3 · formal language · right ✓
Which monarch, following his dream, achieved victory within the stipulated period of seven days?
- 1. King Alfred the Great — ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer · no support
- 2. King Edward the Elder — no support
- 3. Alfred — no support
- 4. King Canute — no support
Why: No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗
What did the sovereign assert regarding the sole ruler capable of governing the sea?
- 1. That one King is all-powerful and the sea must obey him alone — ← Mova's choice · score 2
- 2. That no king on earth, not even he, can command the tides of the sea — no support
- 3. That one man rules the land — score 0
- 4. That one King is all-powerful — ✓ the right answer · no support
Why: It took the question to ask what it is done to. It chose option 1 with score 2, against 0 for the next best. Its support: lesson 342, line 10: «Canute asked, "Will the sea obey me?", and the officers did not dare to say "No".», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «obey» (+2); the same doer «sea» (+1). Against it: a different thing acted on (counts against) (-1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics
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