--- title: Finn guesses a billion people lived when the first farms began. Bett… — How we got here: the big steps on one… · tree and pragmatics description: Finn guesses a billion people lived when the first farms began. Better guess? Test 11 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 choice was wrong --- [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/t11/) [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/) / t11 # Test 11 · How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline Finn guesses a billion people lived when the first farms began. Better guess? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Finn, billion people, first farms · **What happens:** guess, live, begin · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 of lesson 61 «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» of the history course of Mova's primary school. 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Finn guesses a billion people lived when the first farms began. ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline:t11:1 # text = Finn guesses a billion people lived when the first farms began. 1 Finn Finn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 guesses guess VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 amod _ _ 10 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guess** | present | Finn | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **live** | past | a billion people | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **begin** | past | the first farms | | | | | | 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. *Sentence 2:* Better guess? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline:t11:2 # text = Better guess? 1 Better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 amod _ _ 2 guess guess NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Exactly one billion, so Finn is right ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline:t11:o1:1 # text = Exactly one billion, so Finn is right 1 Exactly exactly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 Finn Finn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Finn | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Eight billion, about the same as there are now ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline:t11:o2:1 # text = Eight billion, about the same as there are now 1 Eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 9 expl _ _ 9 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | | | | there | now | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} A few million, about one big city today ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline:t11:o3:1 # text = A few million, about one big city today 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 9 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Only about fifty people in the whole world ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:61-how-we-got-here-the-big-steps-on-one-long-timeline:t11:o4:1 # text = Only about fifty people in the whole world 1 Only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 about about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` 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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