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title: Given that the Julian year exceeded the solar year by approximately… — How our calendar was made: Romans, Jul… · tree and pragmatics
description: Given that the Julian year exceeded the solar year by approximately eleven minutes, ascertain the approximate interval over which the error accumulated to one entire day. Exam question 2 of lesson 116 «How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory» of the world course of Mova's p
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# Exam question 2 · How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope…

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Given that the Julian year exceeded the solar year by approximately eleven minutes, ascertain the approximate interval over which the error accumulated to one entire day.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Julian year, you, error · **What happens:** give, exceed, ascertain, accumulate · **To what, where:** approximate interval

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 116 «How our calendar was made: Romans, Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory» of the world 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/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:116-how-our-calendar-was-made:e2:1
# text = Given that the Julian year exceeded the solar year by approximately eleven minutes, ascertain the approximate interval over which the error accumulated to one entire day.
1	Given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	mark	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	exceeded	exceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	solar	solar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	approximate	approximate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	interval	interval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	error	error	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	accumulated	accumulate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **exceed** | past | the Julian year |  |  |  | minute; year |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the approximate interval |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interval=Topic |
| 4 | **accumulate** | past | the error |  |  | the approximate interval | day |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «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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Approximately one thousand six hundred years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:116-how-our-calendar-was-made:e2:o1:1
# text = Approximately one thousand six hundred years
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	years	year	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 four years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:116-how-our-calendar-was-made:e2:o2:1
# text = Approximately four years
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	four	four	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 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Approximately one hundred and thirty years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:116-how-our-calendar-was-made:e2:o3:1
# text = Approximately one hundred and thirty years
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	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 eleven years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:116-how-our-calendar-was-made:e2:o4:1
# text = Approximately eleven years
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	eleven	eleven	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.

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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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