---
title: Ascertain the interval elapsed between the year 1990 and the year 20… — "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990 · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the interval elapsed between the year 1990 and the year 2026. Exam question 1 of lesson 126 «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/e1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / ["In the olden days": Grandad's 1990](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/) / e1

# Exam question 1 · "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ascertain the interval elapsed between the year 1990 and the year 2026.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, elapse · **To what, where:** interval

<!-- .vabout -->
This is exam question 1 of lesson 126 «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» 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/126-in-the-olden-days/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:e1:1
# text = Ascertain the interval elapsed between the year 1990 and the year 2026.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	interval	interval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	elapsed	elapse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	2026	2026	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the interval |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interval=Topic |
| 2 | **elapse** | participle |  | the interval *not said here* |  |  | year |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Three hundred and sixty years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:e1:o1:1
# text = Three hundred and sixty years
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Twenty-six years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:e1:o2:1
# text = Twenty-six years
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Thirty-six years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:e1:o3:1
# text = Thirty-six years
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Forty-six years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:126-in-the-olden-days:e1:o4:1
# text = Forty-six years
1	Forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: ["In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, test 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/t11/)
- next →: ["In the olden days": Grandad's 1990, exam 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/e2/)
- ↑ back to ["In the olden days": Grandad's 1990](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/126-in-the-olden-days/)