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title: Olena: "Kyiv was founded in 482, so it's over 1,500 years old?" What… — BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Olena: "Kyiv was founded in 482, so it's over 1,500 years old?" What's careful and true? Test 9 · ★★★ 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 choi
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# Test 9 · ★★★ · BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines

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Olena: "Kyiv was founded in 482, so it's over 1,500 years old?" What's careful and true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** it · **What happens:** found, be · **To what, where:** Olena, 482

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This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 125 «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» 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/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Olena: "Kyiv was founded in 482, so it's over 1,500 years old?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines:t9:1
# text = Olena: "Kyiv was founded in 482, so it's over 1,500 years old?"
1	Olena	Olena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Kyiv	Kyiv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	482	482	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	over	over	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	1,500	1,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | Olena |  | 482 |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | it |  |  |  | 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:* What's careful and true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines:t9:2
# text = What's careful and true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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2,508 years old

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines:t9:o1:1
# text = 2,508 years old
1	2,508	2,508	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only 482 years old

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines:t9:o2:1
# text = Only 482 years old
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	482	482	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Exactly 1,544 years, proven to the very day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines:t9:o3:1
# text = Exactly 1,544 years, proven to the very day
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	1,544	1,544	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	proven	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | participle | 1,544 years |  |  |  | day |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
1,544 years by the traditional date, which comes from old stories

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines:t9:o4:1
# text = 1,544 years by the traditional date, which comes from old stories
1	1,544	1,544	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present |  |  |  | old stories | year | by the traditional date | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from story=Initial\_Location |

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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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