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title: Luke reckons 500 BC came after 200 BC. right? — Time and history: the timeline and how… · tree and pragmatics
description: Luke reckons 500 BC came after 200 BC. right? Test 13 · ★★ 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 right.
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# Test 13 · ★★ · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago

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Luke reckons 500 BC came after 200 BC. right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Luke, 500 BC · **What happens:** reckon, come

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This is test 13 · ★★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t13:1
# text = Luke reckons 500 BC came after 200 BC. right?
1	Luke	Luke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
10	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | Luke |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | 500 BC |  |  |  | after 200 |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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 {#o1}

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Yes, bigger numbers always come later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t13:o1:1
# text = Yes, bigger numbers always come later
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | bigger numbers |  |  |  |  | always, late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, BC years count forwards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t13:o2:1
# text = Yes, BC years count forwards
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	forwards	forward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | BC years | forwards |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forward=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No, BC years count backwards, so 500 BC came first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t13:o3:1
# text = No, BC years count backwards, so 500 BC came first
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
10	BC	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | BC years | 500  BC |  |  |  | backwards *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No, they happened in the same year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t13:o4:1
# text = No, they happened in the same year
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | they |  |  |  | year |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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