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# Exam question 4 · Decades, centuries and millennia

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Given that a generation spans approximately twenty-five to thirty years, identify the approximate number of generations comprised in one century.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, generation · **What happens:** give, span, identify, comprise · **To what, where:** approximate number, generations

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:e4:1
# text = Given that a generation spans approximately twenty-five to thirty years, identify the approximate number of generations comprised in one century.
1	Given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spans	span	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	approximate	approximate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	comprised	comprise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **span** | present | a generation |  |  |  | year |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the approximate number of generations |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
| 4 | **comprise** | participle |  | generations *not said here* |  |  | century |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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Forty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:e4:o1:1
# text = Forty
1	Forty	forty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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One

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:e4:o2:1
# text = One
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	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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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:e4:o3:1
# text = Four
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:e4:o4:1
# text = Ten
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	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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