Exam question 3 · Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★

Calculate the number of years elapsing between 10 BC and AD 10, there being no year zero.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, years · What happens: calculate, elapse, be · To what, where: number, year

This is exam question 3 of lesson 85 «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» 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	Calculate	calculate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Calculate	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 years	case
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
6	elapsing	elapse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 years	acl
7	between	between	ADP	_	9 BC	case
8	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 BC	nummod
9	BC	BC	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 elapsing	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 AD	cc
11	AD	ad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 BC	conj
12	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 AD	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 year	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 year	expl
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 year	cop
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 year	det
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Calculate	parataxis
18	zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 year	flat
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Calculate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	calculate	imperative	you not said here	the number of years			tree rules
2	elapse	gerund	years not said here			between 10 BC and AD	tree rules
3	is a	gerund		no year	there		tree rules

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

Twenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nineteen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Twenty-one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Twenty	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Twenty	flat

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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