--- title: State the approximate period since people began to farm and to dwell… — Time and history: the timeline and how… · tree and pragmatics description: State the approximate period since people began to farm and to dwell in villages. Exam question 3 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/48-time-and-history/e3/) [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/) / [Time and history: the timeline and how…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/48-time-and-history/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago State the approximate period since people began to farm and to dwell in villages. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** State · **What happens:** begin, farm, dwell · **To what, where:** villages This is exam question 3 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/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:e3:1 # text = State the approximate period since people began to farm and to dwell in villages. 1 State state NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 approximate approximate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 since since ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 farm farm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 dwell dwell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | State the approximate period since people | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **farm** | to-infinitive | State the approximate period since people *not said here* | | | | | | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dwell** | to-infinitive | State the approximate period since people *not said here* | | | villages | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location | 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} Approximately one thousand years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:e3:o1:1 # text = Approximately one thousand years 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Approximately ten thousand years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:e3:o2:1 # text = Approximately ten thousand years 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Approximately one million years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:e3:o3:1 # text = Approximately one million years 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Approximately five hundred years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:e3:o4:1 # text = Approximately five hundred years 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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