--- title: A pot was made in 500 BC and a sword in the year 500. How many years… — Time and history: the timeline and how… · tree and pragmatics description: A pot was made in 500 BC and a sword in the year 500. How many years apart were they made? Test 4 · ★★ 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/t4/) [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/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★★ · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago A pot was made in 500 BC and a sword in the year 500. How many years apart were they made? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** pot, 500, they This is test 4 · ★★ 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/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A pot was made in 500 BC and a sword in the year 500. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t4:1 # text = A pot was made in 500 BC and a sword in the year 500. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 obl _ _ 7 BC BC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:unmarked _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past · passive | | a pot | | 500 BC | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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:* How many years apart were they made? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t4:2 # text = How many years apart were they made? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 apart apart ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past · passive | | they | | | year | apart *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} About 1,000 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t4:o1:1 # text = About 1,000 years 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 1,000 1000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 500 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t4:o2:1 # text = 500 years 1 500 500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 2,000 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t4:o3:1 # text = 2,000 years 1 2,000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 0 years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t4:o4:1 # text = 0 years 1 0 0 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 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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