--- title: Determine the span of years constituting the twenty-first century. — Decades, centuries and millennia · tree and pragmatics description: Determine the span of years constituting the twenty-first century. Exam question 1 of lesson 124 «Decades, centuries and millennia» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Decades, centuries and millennia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/124-decades-centuries-millennia/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Decades, centuries and millennia Determine the span of years constituting the twenty-first century. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, years · **What happens:** determine, constitute · **To what, where:** span This is exam question 1 of lesson 124 «Decades, centuries and millennia» 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/124-decades-centuries-millennia/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:e1:1 # text = Determine the span of years constituting the twenty-first century. 1 Determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 span span NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 constituting constitute VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 11 century century NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the span of years | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent span=Topic | | 2 | **constitute** | gerund | years *not said here* | | | | century | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | 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} From 2000 to 2099 inclusive ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:e1:o1:1 # text = From 2000 to 2099 inclusive 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 2099 2099 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 inclusive inclusive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} From 2100 to 2199 inclusive ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:e1:o2:1 # text = From 2100 to 2199 inclusive 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2100 2100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 2199 2199 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 inclusive inclusive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} From 1901 to 2000 inclusive ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:e1:o3:1 # text = From 1901 to 2000 inclusive 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1901 1901 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 2000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 inclusive inclusive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} From 2001 to 2100 inclusive ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:e1:o4:1 # text = From 2001 to 2100 inclusive 1 From from ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2001 2001 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 2100 2100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 inclusive inclusive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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