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title: Decades, centuries and millennia — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · World
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 124 «Decades, centuries and millennia» of the world course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Decades, centuries and millennia

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The 15 questions of lesson 124 «Decades, centuries and millennia» of the world course of Mova's primary school with their options, 95 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/t1/) — Ruby: "Nan was a teen in the eighties? So, like, 80 years ago?" What's right? — wrong ✗
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/t2/) — Tom: "21st century? It's 2026, not 2126, the teacher's well confused." What's true? — wrong ✗
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/t3/) — Freya, from Newcastle: "A millennium's a thousand years, like. Has any bairn been alive that long?" ("Bairn" means child.) What's true? — right ✓
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/t4/) — Grandad at a party in 2000: "Technically we're a year early, you numpties." Why? — right ✓
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/t5/) — Kai: "100 years is ages, no one lives that long, no cap." ("No cap" means honestly.) Nan: "My nan did!" Who's right? — right ✓
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/t6/) — Ella's family tree: her, her mum, her nan, her great-nan. About how many years might that cover? — wrong ✗
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/t7/) — Max: "How many days in a century, roughly?" Which sum gets close? — wrong ✗
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/t8/) — Liam's teacher writes "19th century". His mate: "Easy, the 1900s, innit." Fix it. — right ✓
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/t9/) — Grace: "That song's from the noughties? It's like 20 years old, that's ancient, I'm dead." ("I'm dead" means I'm laughing so hard.) The song is from 2006. How old is it in 2026? — wrong ✗
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/t10/) — What would happen if centuries were counted from a year 0 instead of from year 1? — right ✓
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/t11/) — Ivy: "The universe is 13.8 billion years old? How many millennia is that, then?" — wrong ✗
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/e1/) — Determine the span of years constituting the twenty-first century. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the designation "the eighties", as employed in the phrase "a teenager in the eighties"? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/e3/) — Ascertain the date upon which the third millennium commenced. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/e4/) — Given that a generation spans approximately twenty-five to thirty years, identify the approximate number of generations comprised in one century. — wrong ✗ · exam

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