--- title: Identify the minimum duration for which Aboriginal peoples are known… — Australia and New Zealand: a short story · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the minimum duration for which Aboriginal peoples are known to have inhabited Australia. Exam question 1 of lesson 40 «Australia and New Zealand: a short story» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/e1/) [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/) / [Australia and New Zealand: a short story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Australia and New Zealand: a short story Identify the minimum duration for which Aboriginal peoples are known to have inhabited Australia. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, know, inhabit · **To what, where:** minimum duration, Aboriginal peoples, Australia This is exam question 1 of lesson 40 «Australia and New Zealand: a short story» 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/40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:e1:1 # text = Identify the minimum duration for which Aboriginal peoples are known to have inhabited Australia. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 minimum minimum ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 duration duration NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obl _ _ 7 Aboriginal aboriginal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 peoples people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl:relcl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 12 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux _ _ 13 inhabited inhabit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 xcomp _ _ 14 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the minimum duration | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent duration=Theme | | 2 | **know** | present · passive | | Aboriginal peoples | | | | for the minimum duration | tree rules | | 3 | **inhabit** | to-infinitive · perfect | | Australia | | | | | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Fifty thousand years ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:e1:o1:1 # text = Fifty thousand years 1 Fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Five hundred years ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:e1:o2:1 # text = Five hundred years 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Five thousand years ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:e1:o3:1 # text = Five thousand years 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Two hundred and fifty years ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:40-australia-and-new-zealand-a-short-story:e1:o4:1 # text = Two hundred and fifty years 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ 5 years year 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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