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title: lightning just went, how far away is it if thunder came 6 secs later — Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and st… · tree and pragmatics
description: lightning just went, how far away is it if thunder came 6 secs later Test 10 of lesson 15 «Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms» of the world 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 10 · Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms

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lightning just went, how far away is it if thunder came 6 secs later

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lightning, thunder · **What happens:** go, be, come · **To what, where:** it

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This is test 10 of lesson 15 «Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms» of the world 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/world/15-weather/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:15-weather:t10:1
# text = lightning just went, how far away is it if thunder came 6 secs later
1	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	secs	sec	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | lightning | it |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | away, far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | thunder |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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About 6 kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:15-weather:t10: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:world:15-weather:t10: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:world:15-weather:t10: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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Right above us

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:15-weather:t10:o4:1
# text = Right above us
1	Right	right	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	above	above	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	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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