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title: flash then counted 9 secs till thunder, how far — Weather signs and the 30-30 rule · tree and pragmatics
description: flash then counted 9 secs till thunder, how far Test 10 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Weather signs and the 30-30 rule

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flash then counted 9 secs till thunder, how far

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** flash · **What happens:** count · **To what, where:** 9 secs

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 15 «Weather signs and the 30-30 rule» of the everyday 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/everyday/15-weather-signs/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:15-weather-signs:t10:1
# text = flash then counted 9 secs till thunder, how far
1	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	secs	sec	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	till	till	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | past | flash | 9 secs |  |  | till thunder; then | far *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sec=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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About 9 km away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:15-weather-signs:t10:o1:1
# text = About 9 km away
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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About 3 km, or about 2 miles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:15-weather-signs:t10:o2:1
# text = About 3 km, or about 2 miles
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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About 30 km away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:15-weather-signs:t10:o3:1
# text = About 30 km away
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Right overhead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:15-weather-signs:t10:o4:1
# text = Right overhead
1	Right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	overhead	overhead	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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