--- title: Identify the approximate period during which anatomically modern hum… — How we got here: the big steps on one… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the approximate period during which anatomically modern humans have existed. Exam question 1 of lesson 61 «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» 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/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/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/) / [How we got here: the big steps on one…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline Identify the approximate period during which anatomically modern humans have existed. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, modern humans · **What happens:** identify, exist · **To what, where:** approximate period This is exam question 1 of lesson 61 «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» 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/61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline:e1:1 # text = Identify the approximate period during which anatomically modern humans have existed. 1 Identify identify 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 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 during during ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 9 det _ _ 7 anatomically anatomically ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 humans human NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 existed exist VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the approximate period | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent period=Theme | | 2 | **exist** | present · perfect | which modern humans | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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} Approximately four and a half billion years ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline:e1:o1:1 # text = Approximately four and a half billion years 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 compound _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 2 conj _ _ 6 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Approximately three hundred thousand years ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline:e1:o2:1 # text = Approximately three hundred thousand years 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 compound _ _ 4 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Approximately six thousand years ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline:e1:o3:1 # text = Approximately six thousand years 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Approximately two thousand years ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline:e1:o4:1 # text = Approximately two thousand years 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 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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