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title: Ascertain the number of years elapsing between the year 44 BC and th… — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the number of years elapsing between the year 44 BC and the year AD 2026. Exam question 1 of lesson 125 «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» 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
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# Exam question 1 · BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines

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Ascertain the number of years elapsing between the year 44 BC and the year AD 2026.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, years · **What happens:** ascertain, elapse · **To what, where:** number

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 125 «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» 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/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines:e1:1
# text = Ascertain the number of years elapsing between the year 44 BC and the year AD 2026.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	elapsing	elapse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	flat	_	_
11	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 number of years |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **elapse** | gerund | years *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Two thousand and seventy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines:e1:o1:1
# text = Two thousand and seventy
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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One thousand nine hundred and eighty-two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines:e1:o2:1
# text = One thousand nine hundred and eighty-two
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	_
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Two thousand and twenty-six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines:e1:o3:1
# text = Two thousand and twenty-six
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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Two thousand and sixty-nine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines:e1:o4:1
# text = Two thousand and sixty-nine
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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