Exam question 1 · Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★
Calculate the approximate distance of a storm whose thunder is heard 21 seconds after its lightning is seen.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: calculate, hear, see · To what, where: approximate distance, thunder, lightning
This is exam question 1 of lesson 43 «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calculate | calculate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 distance | det |
| 3 | approximate | approximate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 distance | amod |
| 4 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Calculate | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 storm | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 storm | det |
| 7 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 distance | nmod |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 thunder | nmod:poss |
| 9 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | aux:pass |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 storm | acl:relcl |
| 12 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 seconds | nummod |
| 13 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 seen | mark |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lightning | nmod:poss |
| 16 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seen | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | aux:pass |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 heard | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Calculate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calculate | imperative | you not said here | the approximate distance of a storm | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | present · passive | thunder | second | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | present · passive | thunder's lightning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 63 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 63 | advmod |
| 2 | 63 | 63 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 21 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 21 | advmod |
| 2 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 3 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 3 | advmod |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About 7 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 7 | advmod |
| 2 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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