Exam question 1 · How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline

Identify the approximate period during which anatomically modern humans have existed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, modern humans · What happens: identify, exist · To what, where: approximate period

This is exam question 1 of lesson 61 «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 period	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 period	amod
4	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	during	during	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	9 humans	det
7	anatomically	anatomically	ADV	_	8 modern	advmod
8	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 humans	amod
9	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 existed	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 existed	aux
11	existed	exist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Identify	parataxis
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the approximate period					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent period=Theme
2	exist	present · perfect	which modern humans						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Approximately four and a half billion years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	6 billion	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 billion	compound
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 half	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 half	det
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 four	conj
6	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately three hundred thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 thousand	advmod
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 thousand	compound
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Approximately six thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	nummod
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Approximately two thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thousand	compound
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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