Exam question 3 · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago

State the approximate period since people began to farm and to dwell in villages.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: State · What happens: begin, farm, dwell · To what, where: villages

This is exam question 3 of lesson 48 «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
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 State	nmod
5	since	since	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 period	nmod
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 farm	mark
9	farm	farm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dwell	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 dwell	mark
12	dwell	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 farm	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 villages	case
14	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dwell	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	begin	past	State the approximate period since people		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	farm	to-infinitive	State the approximate period since people not said here		vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	dwell	to-infinitive	State the approximate period since people not said here	villages	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location

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 one thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	one	one	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.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Approximately ten thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 thousand	advmod
2	ten	ten	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.

Option 3

Approximately one million years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 million	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 million	compound
3	million	million	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 five hundred years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	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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