Test 6 · ★★ · Politicians and promises, as the news reports them

What would happen if everyone believed every headline without reading the story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: happen, believe, read · To what, where: headline, story

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 442 «Politicians and promises, as the news reports them» of the everyday 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 believed	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 believed	nsubj
6	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 headline	det
8	headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believed	obj
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 reading	mark
10	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 believed	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 story	det
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reading	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	believe a condition, not said to happen	past	everyone	every headline	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer headline=Stimulus
3	read	gerund	everyone not said here	the story	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

Many people would believe things that aren't so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 believe	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 believe	aux
4	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 believe	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 are	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 things	acl:relcl
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 are	advmod
9	so	so	ADV	_	4 believe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	would	Many people	things					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

Option 2

Newspapers would stop having headlines on the front page

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	headlines	headline	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 having	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 page	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 page	det
8	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 page	amod
9	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 having	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Newspapers						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	have	gerund	Newspapers not said here	headlines		the front page			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headline=Patient

Option 3

Everyone would know the full truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 know	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 truth	amod
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	Everyone	the full truth					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus

Option 4

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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