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title: 1990 is that the 19th or 20th century — Time and history: the timeline and how… · tree and pragmatics
description: 1990 is that the 19th or 20th century Test 10 · ★★ 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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# Test 10 · ★★ · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago

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1990 is that the 19th or 20th century

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** 1990 · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 · ★★ 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t10:1
# text = 1990 is that the 19th or 20th century
1	1990	1990	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | 1990 |  |  |  |  | 19th *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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The 19th century

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t10:o1:1
# text = The 19th century
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The 20th century

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t10:o2:1
# text = The 20th century
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	20th	20th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The 10th century

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t10:o3:1
# text = The 10th century
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	10th	10th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The 21st century

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t10:o4:1
# text = The 21st century
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	21st	21st	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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