Exam question 1 · Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks a…

Identify the approximate date of the earliest wheeled vehicles.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, wheel · To what, where: approximate date

This is exam question 1 of lesson 62 «Everyday inventions: pots, boats, wheels, horses, clocks and glasses» 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

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

Approximately five hundred years ago

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Approximately fifty thousand years ago, with the first boats

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately five and a half thousand years ago

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

Option 4

Approximately three hundred thousand years ago

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

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