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title: Which people have the longest history in their land among these? — Time and history: the timeline and how… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which people have the longest history in their land among these? Test 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's choice was right.
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# Test 3 · ★★ · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago

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Which people have the longest history in their land among these?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** longest history, land

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This is test 3 · ★★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t3:1
# text = Which people have the longest history in their land among these?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | which people | the longest history |  | people's land among these |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient |

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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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The people of the United States since 1776

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t3:o1:1
# text = The people of the United States since 1776
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	since	since	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1776	1776	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The printers who followed Gutenberg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t3:o2:1
# text = The printers who followed Gutenberg
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	printers	printer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Gutenberg	Gutenberg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | the printers | Gutenberg |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gutenberg=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The first farmers of Britain, for 5,000 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t3:o3:1
# text = The first farmers of Britain, for 5,000 years
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	5,000	5000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Aboriginal Australians, for more than 50,000 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t3:o4:1
# text = Aboriginal Australians, for more than 50,000 years
1	Aboriginal	aboriginal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Australians	Australian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	7	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	50,000	50000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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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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