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title: In a cartoon, a spaceship blows up with a huge BOOM heard by heroes… — Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electric… · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★

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In a cartoon, a spaceship blows up with a huge BOOM heard by heroes in another ship far away. Fix it.

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** spaceship, you · **What happens:** blow up, hear, fix · **To what, where:** cartoon, huge BOOM, ship, spaceship

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This is test 4 · ★★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, a spaceship blows up with a huge BOOM heard by heroes in another ship far away.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t4:1
# text = In a cartoon, a spaceship blows up with a huge BOOM heard by heroes in another ship far away.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spaceship	spaceship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	BOOM	boom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow up** | present | a spaceship |  |  | a cartoon |  | with a huge BOOM | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with boom=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | participle |  | a huge BOOM *not said here* |  | another ship |  | by heroes; away *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:* Fix it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t4:2
# text = Fix it.
1	Fix	fix	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | imperative | you *not said here* | spaceship |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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They would hear it, but only a minute or so later

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t4:o1:1
# text = They would hear it, but only a minute or so later
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
12	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | would | They | it |  |  | minute | late *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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They would hear it but see nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t4:o2:1
# text = They would hear it but see nothing
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | would | They | it |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | present | They *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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They would see the blast but hear nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t4:o3:1
# text = They would see the blast but hear nothing
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | would | They | the blast |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blast=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | present | They *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would be even louder out in space

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets:t4:o4:1
# text = It would be even louder out in space
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | It |  |  | space |  | loud *property* | tree rules |

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