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title: Ascertain the interval elapsing between Easter and the descent of th… — Easter and Pentecost · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the interval elapsing between Easter and the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples. Exam question 2 of lesson 19 «Easter and Pentecost» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Exam question 2 · Easter and Pentecost

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Ascertain the interval elapsing between Easter and the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, interval, Holy Spirit · **What happens:** ascertain, elapse, descend · **To what, where:** interval

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 19 «Easter and Pentecost» of the religion ethics 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/religion-ethics/19-easter-and-pentecost/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:19-easter-and-pentecost:e2:1
# text = Ascertain the interval elapsing between Easter and the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	interval	interval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	elapsing	elapse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Easter	Easter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Holy	Holy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
13	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	disciples	disciple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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* | the interval |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interval=Topic |
| 2 | **elapse** | gerund | the interval *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between Easter and the descent of the Holy Spirit; upon the disciples | tree rules |
| 3 | **descend** |  | the Holy Spirit |  |  |  |  |  | nom descent «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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Fifty days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:19-easter-and-pentecost:e2:o1:1
# text = Fifty days
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Three days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:19-easter-and-pentecost:e2:o2:1
# text = Three days
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Twelve days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:19-easter-and-pentecost:e2:o3:1
# text = Twelve days
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Forty days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:19-easter-and-pentecost:e2:o4:1
# text = Forty days
1	Forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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