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title: Identify the years comprising the twentieth century. — Time and history: the timeline and how… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the years comprising the twentieth century. Exam question 2 of lesson 48 «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» 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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# Exam question 2 · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago

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Identify the years comprising the twentieth century.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, years · **What happens:** identify, comprise

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 48 «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» 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/48-time-and-history/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:e2:1
# text = Identify the years comprising the twentieth century.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	comprising	comprise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	twentieth	twentieth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **comprise** | gerund | the years *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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2001 to 2100

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:e2:o1:1
# text = 2001 to 2100
1	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	2100	2100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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1900 to 1999

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:e2:o2:1
# text = 1900 to 1999
1	1900	1900	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	1999	1999	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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1800 to 1899

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:e2:o3:1
# text = 1800 to 1899
1	1800	1800	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	1899	1899	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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1901 to 2000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:e2:o4:1
# text = 1901 to 2000
1	1901	1901	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	2000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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