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title: Ascertain the date upon which the third millennium commenced. — Decades, centuries and millennia · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the date upon which the third millennium commenced. Exam question 3 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.
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# Exam question 3 · Decades, centuries and millennia

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Ascertain the date upon which the third millennium commenced.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, third millennium · **What happens:** ascertain, commence · **To what, where:** date

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the date upon which the third millennium commenced.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	millennium	millennium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	commenced	commence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	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 date |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic |
| 2 | **commence** | participle | the third millennium |  |  |  |  | upon the date | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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The first of January, 2000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:e3:o1:1
# text = The first of January, 2000
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The first of January, 2001

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:e3:o2:1
# text = The first of January, 2001
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The thirty-first of December, 1999

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:e3:o3:1
# text = The thirty-first of December, 1999
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	1999	1999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The first of January, 2100

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:e3:o4:1
# text = The first of January, 2100
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	2100	2100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	_
```

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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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