--- title: Identify the date upon which, according to the United Nations, the p… — Humanity today: how many we are, how l… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the date upon which, according to the United Nations, the population of the world attained eight billion persons. Exam question 1 of lesson 78 «Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poor and how rich» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/78-humanity-today-how-many-how-long-how-rich/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/) / [Humanity today: how many we are, how l…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/78-humanity-today-how-many-how-long-how-rich/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poo… Identify the date upon which, according to the United Nations, the population of the world attained eight billion persons. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, United Nations · **What happens:** identify, accord, attain · **To what, where:** date, billion persons This is exam question 1 of lesson 78 «Humanity today: how many we are, how long we live, how poor and how rich» 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/78-humanity-today-how-many-how-long-how-rich/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:78-humanity-today-how-many-how-long-how-rich:e1:1 # text = Identify the date upon which, according to the United Nations, the population of the world attained eight billion persons. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 upon upon ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 according accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 case _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 7 fixed _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 United United PROPN NNP _ 11 compound _ _ 11 Nations Nation PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 population population NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 attained attain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 19 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 compound _ _ 20 billion billion NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 persons person NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the date | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent date=Theme | | 2 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **attain** | past | the United Nations | billion persons | | | | upon the date | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=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} The first of January, nineteen hundred ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:78-humanity-today-how-many-how-long-how-rich:e1:o1:1 # text = The first of January, nineteen hundred 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 first first NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 nineteen nineteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 compound _ _ 7 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 acl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The first of January, two thousand and fifty ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:78-humanity-today-how-many-how-long-how-rich:e1:o2:1 # text = The first of January, two thousand and fifty 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 first first NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 January January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 compound _ _ 7 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 appos _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The fifteenth of November, two thousand and twenty-two ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:78-humanity-today-how-many-how-long-how-rich:e1:o3:1 # text = The fifteenth of November, two thousand and twenty-two 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fifteenth fifteenth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 November November PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 compound _ _ 7 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 appos _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The fifteenth of November, in the year nineteen hundred and fifty ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:78-humanity-today-how-many-how-long-how-rich:e1:o4:1 # text = The fifteenth of November, in the year nineteen hundred and fifty 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fifteenth fifteenth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 November November PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 9 nineteen nineteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 compound _ _ 10 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 conj _ _ ``` 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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