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title: saw lightning, counted 6 before the thunder, how far is it — Thinking like a scientist: the body an… · tree and pragmatics
description: saw lightning, counted 6 before the thunder, how far is it Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics» 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 11 · ★★★ · Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics

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saw lightning, counted 6 before the thunder, how far is it

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lightning · **What happens:** see, count, be · **To what, where:** lightning, 6

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This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Thinking like a scientist: the body and physics» 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/40-body-and-physics-reasoning/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:40-body-and-physics-reasoning:t11:1
# text = saw lightning, counted 6 before the thunder, how far is it
1	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
5	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past |  | lightning |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lightning=Stimulus |
| 2 | **count** | participle |  | 6 |  |  | before the thunder |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 6=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | lightning |  |  |  |  | far *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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Right overhead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:40-body-and-physics-reasoning:t11:o1:1
# text = Right overhead
1	Right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	overhead	overhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About six kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:40-body-and-physics-reasoning:t11:o2:1
# text = About six kilometres
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About half a kilometre

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:40-body-and-physics-reasoning:t11:o3:1
# text = About half a kilometre
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	4	det:predet	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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About two kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:40-body-and-physics-reasoning:t11:o4:1
# text = About two kilometres
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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.

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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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