---
title: If the Sun suddenly went out, how soon would we notice from Earth? — Distances and light years · tree and pragmatics
description: If the Sun suddenly went out, how soon would we notice from Earth? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 22 «Distances and light years» of the space course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/22-distances-and-light-years/t2/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Space](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/) / [Distances and light years](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/22-distances-and-light-years/) / t2

# Test 2 · ★ · Distances and light years

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
If the Sun suddenly went out, how soon would we notice from Earth?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sun, we · **What happens:** go out, notice · **To what, where:** Earth

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 22 «Distances and light years» of the space 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/space/22-distances-and-light-years/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t2:1
# text = If the Sun suddenly went out, how soon would we notice from Earth?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the Sun |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **notice** | would | we |  |  | Earth |  | soon *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
After about 1.3 seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t2:o1:1
# text = After about 1.3 seconds
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	1.3	1.3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
After a whole year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t2:o2:1
# text = After a whole year
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
After about 8 minutes 20 seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t2:o3:1
# text = After about 8 minutes 20 seconds
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At that very same moment

```conllu
# sent_id = question:space:22-distances-and-light-years:t2:o4:1
# text = At that very same moment
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Distances and light years, test 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/22-distances-and-light-years/t1/)
- next →: [Distances and light years, test 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/22-distances-and-light-years/t3/)
- ↑ back to [Distances and light years](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/space/22-distances-and-light-years/)