Test 10 · Decades, centuries and millennia

What would happen if centuries were counted from a year 0 instead of from year 1?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, count · To what, where: centuries

This is test 10 of lesson 124 «Decades, centuries and millennia» of the world 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	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 counted	mark
5	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 counted	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 counted	aux:pass
7	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 year	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 counted	obl
11	0	0	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 year	flat
12	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	15 year	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 instead	fixed
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 year	case
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 counted	obl
16	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 year	flat
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	count a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		centuries			year		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=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

The 21st century would last a full 1,000 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 century	det
2	21st	21st	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	3 century	amod
3	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 last	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 last	aux
5	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 years	det
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 years	amod
8	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 last	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	would	the 21st century				year		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 2

There would be no 21st century at all, only the 20th

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 century	det
5	21st	21st	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	6 century	amod
6	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 be	nsubj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 century	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 20th	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 20th	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 20th	det
12	20th	20th	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	6 century	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would	no 21st century at all and the 20th			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The 21st century would run from 2000 to 2099

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 century	det
2	21st	21st	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	3 century	amod
3	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 run	aux
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 2000	case
7	2000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 run	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 2099	case
9	2099	2099	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 2000	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	would	the 21st century			2000 to 2099			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from 2000=Trajectory

Option 4

The 21st century would only run from 2100 to 2199

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 century	det
2	21st	21st	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord	3 century	amod
3	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 run	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 run	advmod
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 2100	case
8	2100	2100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 run	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 2199	case
10	2199	2199	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 2100	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	would	the 21st century			2100 to 2199			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from 2100=Trajectory

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