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title: Identify the earliest of the following years. — Olympiad: timelines, centuries and whi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the earliest of the following years. Exam question 1 of lesson 85 «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» 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 right.
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# Exam question 1 · Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★

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Identify the earliest of the following years.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, follow · **To what, where:** earliest

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 85 «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» 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/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:e1:1
# text = Identify the earliest of the following years.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the earliest |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent early=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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}

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776 BC

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:e1:o1:1
# text = 776 BC
1	776	776	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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AD 476

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:e1:o2:1
# text = AD 476
1	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	476	476	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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AD 988

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:e1:o3:1
# text = AD 988
1	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	988	988	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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44 BC

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:e1:o4:1
# text = 44 BC
1	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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