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title: Define the term «anachronism». — Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Define the term «anachronism». Exam question 1 of lesson 87 «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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 wrong.
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# Exam question 1 · Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★

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Define the term «anachronism».

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** define · **To what, where:** term

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 87 «Olympiad: spot the anachronism ★★★» 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/87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e1:1
# text = Define the term «anachronism».
1	Define	define	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	anachronism	anachronism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **define** | imperative | you *not said here* | the term |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=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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A calendar error of a single year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e1:o1:1
# text = A calendar error of a single year
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	calendar	calendar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **err** |  | a single year |  |  |  |  |  | nom error «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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

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Something placed in a period to which it does not belong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e1:o2:1
# text = Something placed in a period to which it does not belong
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | participle |  |  |  | a period |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in period=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **belong** | present · do-support | period |  |  |  |  | to a period | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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An account wholly free from error

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e1:o3:1
# text = An account wholly free from error
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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An exceptionally ancient artefact

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:87-olympiad-spot-the-anachronism:e1:o4:1
# text = An exceptionally ancient artefact
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	exceptionally	exceptionally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	artefact	artefact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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