Exam question 1 · BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines

Ascertain the number of years elapsing between the year 44 BC and the year AD 2026.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, years · What happens: ascertain, elapse · To what, where: number

This is exam question 1 of lesson 125 «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world 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	Ascertain	ascertain	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 Ascertain	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 year	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 elapsing	obl
10	44	44	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 year	flat
11	BC	BC	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 year	appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 AD	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 AD	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 AD	compound
15	AD	ad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 year	conj
16	2026	2026	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 AD	flat
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the number of years					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic
2	elapse	gerund	years not said here				year		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

Two thousand and seventy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 seventy	cc
4	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	conj

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

Option 2

One thousand nine hundred and eighty-two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 nine	compound
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 two	cc
6	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 two	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 eighty	punct
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	conj

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

Option 3

Two thousand and twenty-six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 six	cc
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 six	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 twenty	punct
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Two thousand and sixty-nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	compound
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nine	cc
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 nine	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sixty	punct
6	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thousand	conj

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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