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title: If sound travelled as fast as light, what would you notice in a storm? — Weather signs and the 30-30 rule · tree and pragmatics
description: If sound travelled as fast as light, what would you notice in a storm? Test 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 right.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Weather signs and the 30-30 rule

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If sound travelled as fast as light, what would you notice in a storm?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sound, you · **What happens:** travel, notice · **To what, where:** light, storm

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:15-weather-signs:t3:1
# text = If sound travelled as fast as light, what would you notice in a storm?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | sound |  |  |  |  | as light; fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **notice** | would | you | light |  | a storm |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

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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 {#o1}

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No thunder at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:15-weather-signs:t3:o1:1
# text = No thunder at all
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lightning lasting for minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:15-weather-signs:t3:o2:1
# text = Lightning lasting for minutes
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	lasting	last	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | gerund | Lightning *not said here* |  |  |  | minute |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Thunder and lightning at the same moment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:15-weather-signs:t3:o3:1
# text = Thunder and lightning at the same moment
1	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Thunder arriving long before the lightning flash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:15-weather-signs:t3:o4:1
# text = Thunder arriving long before the lightning flash
1	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | gerund | Thunder *not said here* |  |  |  | before the lightning flash | long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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