--- title: Calculate the number of years elapsing between 10 BC and AD 10, ther… — Olympiad: timelines, centuries and whi… · tree and pragmatics description: Calculate the number of years elapsing between 10 BC and AD 10, there being no year zero. Exam question 3 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/e3/) [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/) / [Olympiad: timelines, centuries and whi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★ Calculate the number of years elapsing between 10 BC and AD 10, there being no year zero. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, years · **What happens:** calculate, elapse, be · **To what, where:** number, year This is exam question 3 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/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:e3:1 # text = Calculate the number of years elapsing between 10 BC and AD 10, there being no year zero. 1 Calculate calculate VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 elapsing elapse VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 between between ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 BC BC NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 AD ad NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 17 expl _ _ 15 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 cop _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 17 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 18 zero zero NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **calculate** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of years | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **elapse** | gerund | years *not said here* | | | | | between 10 BC and AD | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | gerund | | no year | | there | | | 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 {#o1} Twenty ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:e3:o1:1 # text = Twenty 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Nineteen ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:e3:o2:1 # text = Nineteen 1 Nineteen nineteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Ten ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:e3:o3:1 # text = Ten 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Twenty-one ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:e3:o4:1 # text = Twenty-one 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 flat _ _ ``` 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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