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title: Ivy: "The universe is 13.8 billion years old? How many millennia is… — Decades, centuries and millennia · tree and pragmatics
description: Ivy: "The universe is 13.8 billion years old? How many millennia is that, then?" Test 11 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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# Test 11 · Decades, centuries and millennia

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Ivy: "The universe is 13.8 billion years old? How many millennia is that, then?"

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** universe, many millennia · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** that

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This is test 11 of lesson 124 «Decades, centuries and millennia» of the world course of Mova's primary school. 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ivy: "The universe is 13.8 billion years old?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:t11:1
# text = Ivy: "The universe is 13.8 billion years old?
1	Ivy	ivy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	universe	universe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	13.8	13.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	_
8	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the universe |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* How many millennia is that, then?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:t11:2
# text = How many millennia is that, then?"
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	millennia	millennia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | many millennia | that |  |  | then |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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13.8 billion millennia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:t11:o1:1
# text = 13.8 billion millennia
1	13.8	13.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	billion	billion	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	millennia	millennia	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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13.8 thousand millennia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:t11:o2:1
# text = 13.8 thousand millennia
1	13.8	13.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	millennia	millennia	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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138 millennia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:t11:o3:1
# text = 138 millennia
1	138	138	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	millennia	millennia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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13.8 million millennia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:124-decades-centuries-millennia:t11:o4:1
# text = 13.8 million millennia
1	13.8	13.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	millennia	millennia	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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