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title: You count 9 seconds between flash and bang. About how far off is the… — Weather, storms and the changing climate · tree and pragmatics
description: You count 9 seconds between flash and bang. About how far off is the storm? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 23 «Weather, storms and the changing climate» of the geography 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 3 · ★★ · Weather, storms and the changing climate

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You count 9 seconds between flash and bang. About how far off is the storm?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** count, be · **To what, where:** storm

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 23 «Weather, storms and the changing climate» of the geography 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/geography/23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You count 9 seconds between flash and bang.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate:t3:1
# text = You count 9 seconds between flash and bang.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | You |  |  |  | second |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* About how far off is the storm?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate:t3:2
# text = About how far off is the storm?
1	About	about	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	off	off	ADV	RB	_	7	advcl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the storm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About 30 kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate:t3:o1:1
# text = About 30 kilometres
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kilometres	kilometre	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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Right overhead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate:t3:o2:1
# 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.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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About 9 kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate:t3:o3:1
# text = About 9 kilometres
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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About 3 kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate:t3:o4:1
# text = About 3 kilometres
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kilometres	kilometre	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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