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title: Ascertain the approximate antiquity of the body designated Ötzi, rec… — The first people: hunters, gatherers a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the approximate antiquity of the body designated Ötzi, recovered from the Alpine ice in 1991. Exam question 4 of lesson 1 «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Exam question 4 · The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters

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Ascertain the approximate antiquity of the body designated Ötzi, recovered from the Alpine ice in 1991.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, approximate antiquity · **What happens:** ascertain, designate, recover · **To what, where:** Ötzi, Alpine ice

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1 «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/1-the-first-people/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:1-the-first-people:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the approximate antiquity of the body designated Ötzi, recovered from the Alpine ice in 1991.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	designated	designate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	Ötzi	Ötzi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Alpine	alpine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1991	1991	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **designate** | past | the approximate antiquity of the body | Ötzi |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ötzi=Theme |
| 3 | **recover** | past | the approximate antiquity of the body *not said here* |  |  | the Alpine ice |  | in 1991 | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from ice=Source |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Approximately 5,300 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:1-the-first-people:e4:o1:1
# text = Approximately 5,300 years
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	5,300	5,300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Approximately 530 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:1-the-first-people:e4:o2:1
# text = Approximately 530 years
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	530	530	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Approximately 5.3 million years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:1-the-first-people:e4:o3:1
# text = Approximately 5.3 million years
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	5.3	5.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Approximately 53,000 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:1-the-first-people:e4:o4:1
# text = Approximately 53,000 years
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	53,000	53,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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