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description: Identify the period which should elapse after the last thunder before a return out of doors. Exam question 3 of lesson 15 «Weather signs and the 30-30 rule» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was 
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# Exam question 3 · Weather signs and the 30-30 rule

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Identify the period which should elapse after the last thunder before a return out of doors.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, period · **What happens:** identify, elapse · **To what, where:** period

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 15 «Weather signs and the 30-30 rule» of the everyday 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/everyday/15-weather-signs/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:15-weather-signs:e3:1
# text = Identify the period which should elapse after the last thunder before a return out of doors.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	elapse	elapse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the period |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent period=Theme |
| 2 | **elapse** | should | the period |  |  |  | after the last thunder; before a return out doors |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Thirty minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:15-weather-signs:e3:o1:1
# text = Thirty minutes
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Three minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:15-weather-signs:e3:o2:1
# text = Three minutes
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Thirty seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:15-weather-signs:e3:o3:1
# text = Thirty seconds
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Three hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:15-weather-signs:e3:o4:1
# text = Three hours
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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