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title: The year 1240 belongs to which century? — Time and history: the timeline and how… · tree and pragmatics
description: The year 1240 belongs to which century? Test 9 · ★★ 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 9 · ★★ · Time and history: the timeline and how people lived long ago

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The year 1240 belongs to which century?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** year · **What happens:** belong

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t9:1
# text = The year 1240 belongs to which century?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	1240	1240	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	7	det	_	_
7	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present | the year |  |  |  | century |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The 12th century

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t9:o1:1
# text = The 12th century
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	12th	12th	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 {#o2}

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The 2nd century

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t9:o2:1
# text = The 2nd century
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	2nd	2nd	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 14th century

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t9:o3:1
# text = The 14th century
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	14th	14th	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The 13th century

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:48-time-and-history:t9:o4:1
# text = The 13th century
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	13th	13th	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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