--- title: Grandma was born in 1955 and her granddaughter in 2015. In which cen… — Time and history: the timeline and how… · tree and pragmatics description: Grandma was born in 1955 and her granddaughter in 2015. In which centuries were they born? Test 1 · ★★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/48-time-and-history/t1/) [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/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★★ · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago Grandma was born in 1955 and her granddaughter in 2015. In which centuries were they born? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** bear · **To what, where:** Grandma, 1955, centuries This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 48 «Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago» 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/48-time-and-history/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Grandma was born in 1955 and her granddaughter in 2015. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t1:1 # text = Grandma was born in 1955 and her granddaughter in 2015. 1 Grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1955 1955 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 granddaughter granddaughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 2015 2015 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | past · passive | | Grandma | | 1955 and her granddaughter in 2015 | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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. *Sentence 2:* In which centuries were they born? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t1:2 # text = In which centuries were they born? 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 3 det _ _ 3 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | past · passive | | which centuries | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The 19th and the 21st ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t1:o1:1 # text = The 19th and the 21st 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 19th 19th ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 21st 21st NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Both in the 20th ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t1:o2:1 # text = Both in the 20th 1 Both both CCONJ CC _ 4 cc:preconj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 20th 20th NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The 20th and the 21st ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t1:o3:1 # text = The 20th and the 21st 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 20th 20th ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 21st 21st NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The 19th and the 20th ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t1:o4:1 # text = The 19th and the 20th 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 19th 19th ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 20th 20th NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 2 conj _ _ ``` 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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