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# Test 1 · ★★★ · Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★

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Cerys, in Cardiff: "It's chucking it down, mun, and the thunder's a million miles off." She counts 6 seconds after the flash. How far is the storm?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Cerys, thunder, Cardiff · **What happens:** chuck down, be, count · **To what, where:** it, million miles, storm

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This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 43 «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» 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/43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Cerys, in Cardiff: "It's chucking it down, mun, and the thunder's a million miles off."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t1:1
# text = Cerys, in Cardiff: "It's chucking it down, mun, and the thunder's a million miles off."
1	Cerys	Cerys	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Cardiff	Cardiff	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	chucking	chuck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	mun	mun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
22	off	off	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuck down** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Cerys and Cardiff | it |  |  |  | mun *obl* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the thunder | million miles |  |  |  | off *property* | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* She counts 6 seconds after the flash.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t1:2
# text = She counts 6 seconds after the flash.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | Cardiff |  |  |  | after the flash; second |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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*Sentence 3:* How far is the storm?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t1:3
# text = How far is the storm?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About 6 kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t1:o1:1
# text = About 6 kilometres
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	6	6	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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About 2 kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t1:o2:1
# text = About 2 kilometres
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	2	2	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 3 {#o3}

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About 18 kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t1:o3:1
# text = About 18 kilometres
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	18	18	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 {#o4}

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A million miles away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t1:o4:1
# text = A million miles away
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

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