--- title: Ascertain the approximate period which has elapsed since the extinct… — Dinosaurs and life long ago · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the approximate period which has elapsed since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Exam question 1 of lesson 78 «Dinosaurs and life 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago/e1/) [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/) / [Dinosaurs and life long ago](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Dinosaurs and life long ago Ascertain the approximate period which has elapsed since the extinction of the dinosaurs. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, elapse, extinguish · **To what, where:** approximate period, dinosaurs This is exam question 1 of lesson 78 «Dinosaurs and life long ago» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:e1:1 # text = Ascertain the approximate period which has elapsed since the extinction of the dinosaurs. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 approximate approximate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 period period NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 elapsed elapse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 since since ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 extinction extinction NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the approximate period | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent period=Topic | | 2 | **elapse** | present · perfect · passive | | the approximate period | | | since the extinction of the dinosaurs | | tree rules | | 3 | **extinguish** | | | the dinosaurs | | | | | nom extinction «state transitive»: of=patient | 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} About 66 thousand years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:e1:o1:1 # text = About 66 thousand years 1 About about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} About 660 million years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:e1:o2:1 # text = About 660 million years 1 About about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 660 660 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} About 66 million years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:e1:o3:1 # text = About 66 million years 1 About about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} About 6 million years ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:e1:o4:1 # text = About 6 million years 1 About about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 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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