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title: What would happen if a firecracker burst far away across a field ins… — Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers an… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a firecracker burst far away across a field instead of next to you? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 19 «Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice wa
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# Test 3 · ★ · Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears

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What would happen if a firecracker burst far away across a field instead of next to you?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** firecracker · **What happens:** happen, burst · **To what, where:** field

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 19 «Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears» of the physics 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/physics/19-bangs-and-loud-sounds-firecrackers-and-ears/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:19-bangs-and-loud-sounds-firecrackers-and-ears:t3:1
# text = What would happen if a firecracker burst far away across a field instead of next to you?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	firecracker	firecracker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	across	across	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	next	next	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **burst** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a firecracker |  |  | a field |  | away, next *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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It would be silent, because sound cannot cross fields

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:19-bangs-and-loud-sounds-firecrackers-and-ears:t3:o1:1
# text = It would be silent, because sound cannot cross fields
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | It |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **cross** | can | sound | fields |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would be just as loud as close up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:19-bangs-and-loud-sounds-firecrackers-and-ears:t3:o2:1
# text = It would be just as loud as close up
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | It |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **close up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would be louder, because sound grows with distance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:19-bangs-and-loud-sounds-firecrackers-and-ears:t3:o3:1
# text = It would be louder, because sound grows with distance
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | It |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | sound |  |  |  |  | with distance | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The bang would be much weaker by the time it reached you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:19-bangs-and-loud-sounds-firecrackers-and-ears:t3:o4:1
# text = The bang would be much weaker by the time it reached you
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the bang |  |  |  | time | weak *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | past | bang | you |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent you=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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