--- title: Ascertain the duration, in years, of the conflict designated the Hun… — The Black Death and the end of the Mid… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the duration, in years, of the conflict designated the Hundred Years' War. Exam question 2 of lesson 24 «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [The Black Death and the end of the Mid…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages Ascertain the duration, in years, of the conflict designated the Hundred Years' War. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, conflict · **What happens:** ascertain, designate · **To what, where:** duration, War This is exam question 2 of lesson 24 «The Black Death and the end of the Middle Ages» 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/24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the duration, in years, of the conflict designated the Hundred Years' War. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 duration duration NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 of of SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 conflict conflict NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 designated designate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 Years Year PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ' 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 War War PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the duration | | | year | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic | | 2 | **designate** | past | the conflict | the Hundred Years's War | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Fifty-six ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:e2:o1:1 # text = Fifty-six 1 Fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} One hundred and sixteen ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:e2:o2:1 # text = One hundred and sixteen 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 sixteen sixteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Precisely one hundred ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:e2:o3:1 # text = Precisely one hundred 1 Precisely precisely ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} One thousand ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:24-the-black-death-and-the-end-of-the-middle-ages:e2:o4:1 # text = One thousand 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 list _ _ ``` 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. 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