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title: ★★★ Mia's teacher writes «the 18th century» and Mia writes «1800 to… — Olympiad: timelines, centuries and whi… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Mia's teacher writes «the 18th century» and Mia writes «1800 to 1899». What should it be? Test 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 question and of each option
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# Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★

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★★★ Mia's teacher writes «the 18th century» and Mia writes «1800 to 1899». What should it be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, Mia, teacher · **What happens:** write, be · **To what, where:** 1800, 1899

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This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 85 «Olympiad: timelines, centuries and which came first ★★★» 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/85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Mia's teacher writes «the 18th century» and Mia writes «1800 to 1899».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:t4:1
# text = ★★★ Mia's teacher writes «the 18th century» and Mia writes «1800 to 1899».
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	18th	18th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	writes	write	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	1800	1800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	1899	1899	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present | ★ |  |  |  | century |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **write** | present | Mia | 1800 | 1899 |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent 1800=Topic to 1899=Recipient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should it be?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:t4:2
# text = What should it be?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | should | teacher |  |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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1601 to 1700

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:t4:o1:1
# text = 1601 to 1700
1	1601	1601	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	1700	1700	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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1801 to 1900

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:t4:o2:1
# text = 1801 to 1900
1	1801	1801	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	1900	1900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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1800 to 1899

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:t4:o3:1
# text = 1800 to 1899
1	1800	1800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	1899	1899	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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1701 to 1800

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:85-olympiad-timelines-centuries-and-which-came-first:t4:o4:1
# text = 1701 to 1800
1	1701	1701	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	1800	1800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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