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title: Ascertain the approximate duration of human gestation prior to birth. — Life begins: being born and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the approximate duration of human gestation prior to birth. Exam question 1 of lesson 51 «Life begins: being born and growing up» 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 was right.
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# Exam question 1 · Life begins: being born and growing up

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Ascertain the approximate duration of human gestation prior to birth.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain · **To what, where:** approximate duration

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 51 «Life begins: being born and growing up» 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/51-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:51-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up:e1:1
# text = Ascertain the approximate duration of human gestation prior to birth.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	gestation	gestation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	prior	prior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	xcomp	_	_
10	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	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 approximate duration of human gestation |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition duration=Beneficiary birth=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Approximately nine months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:51-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up:e1:o1:1
# text = Approximately nine months
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	months	month	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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Approximately three weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:51-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up:e1:o2:1
# text = Approximately three weeks
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	weeks	week	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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Approximately two years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:51-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up:e1:o3:1
# text = Approximately two years
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	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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Approximately nine days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:51-life-begins-being-born-and-growing-up:e1:o4:1
# text = Approximately nine days
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	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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