--- title: Ascertain the duration of the first powered aeroplane flight underta… — The Industrial Revolution · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the duration of the first powered aeroplane flight undertaken by the Wright brothers in nineteen hundred and three. Exam question 3 of lesson 30 «The Industrial Revolution» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/e3/) [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 Industrial Revolution](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · The Industrial Revolution Ascertain the duration of the first powered aeroplane flight undertaken by the Wright brothers in nineteen hundred and three. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, power, undertake · **To what, where:** duration, first powered aeroplane flight, nineteen hundred This is exam question 3 of lesson 30 «The Industrial Revolution» 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/30-the-industrial-revolution/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:e3:1 # text = Ascertain the duration of the first powered aeroplane flight undertaken by the Wright brothers in nineteen hundred and three. 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 _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 amod _ _ 7 powered power VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 8 aeroplane aeroplane NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 10 undertaken undertake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Wright Wright PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 nineteen nineteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 compound _ _ 17 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . 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 of the first powered aeroplane flight | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic | | 2 | **power** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **undertake** | participle | | the first powered aeroplane flight *not said here* | | nineteen hundred | | by the Wright brothers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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} Twelve whole minutes ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:e3:o1:1 # text = Twelve whole minutes 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Twelve seconds ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:e3:o2:1 # text = Twelve seconds 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Twelve long hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:e3:o3:1 # text = Twelve long hours 1 Twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Two entire days ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:30-the-industrial-revolution:e3:o4:1 # text = Two entire days 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 entire entire ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 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. 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