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title: Ascertain whether Cleopatra lived nearer in time to the building of… — Olympiad: timelines, centuries and whi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain whether Cleopatra lived nearer in time to the building of the Great Pyramid or to the first Moon landing. Exam question 4 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 qu
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# Exam question 4 · Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★

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Ascertain whether Cleopatra lived nearer in time to the building of the Great Pyramid or to the first Moon landing.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Cleopatra · **What happens:** ascertain, live

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:e4:1
# text = Ascertain whether Cleopatra lived nearer in time to the building of the Great Pyramid or to the first Moon landing.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	Cleopatra	Cleopatra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	nearer	near	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Pyramid	Pyramid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
19	Moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **live** | past | Cleopatra |  |  |  | time | near *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «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 {#o1}

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Exactly halfway between the two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:e4:o1:1
# text = Exactly halfway between the two
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	halfway	halfway	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Nearer to the Moon landing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:e4:o2:1
# text = Nearer to the Moon landing
1	Nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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At the very time of the builders

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:e4:o3:1
# text = At the very time of the builders
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	builders	builder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nearer to the Great Pyramid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:e4:o4:1
# text = Nearer to the Great Pyramid
1	Nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Pyramid	Pyramid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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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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