Test 11 · ★★ · Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the…

Gran watches the telly: "It's all bad news, love." What would happen if the news reported slow good changes as often as disasters?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gran, telly, news · What happens: watch, be, happen, report · To what, where: telly, bad news, slow good changes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» of the history 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

Sentence 1: Gran watches the telly: "It's all bad news, love."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 watches	nsubj
2	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 telly	det
4	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watches	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 news	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 news	punct
7	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 news	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 news	cop
9	all	all	ADV	_	11 news	advmod
10	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 news	amod
11	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watches	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 love	punct
13	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 news	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 watches	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 watches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	present	Gran	the telly					tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	telly	bad news and love				all property	tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: What would happen if the news reported slow good changes as often as disasters?

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	_	7 reported	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 news	det
6	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reported	nsubj
7	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 changes	amod
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 changes	amod
10	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reported	obj
11	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	14 disasters	cc
12	often	often	ADV	_	11 as	fixed
13	as	as	ADP	_	11 as	fixed
14	disasters	disaster	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 changes	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	report a condition, not said to happen	past	the news	slow good changes as disasters					vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Patient

The options

Option 1

Nothing would be different

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 different	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 different	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 different	cop
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Nothing					different property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The world would seem less hopeless, closer to what the data shows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 world	det
2	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seem	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 seem	aux
4	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 hopeless	advmod
6	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seem	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 closer	punct
8	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 seem	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 what	case
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 closer	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 data	det
12	data	data	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shows	nsubj
13	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	would	the world					close, hopeless property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	show	present	the data						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The world would get worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 world	det
2	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the world					bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

People would stop watching all news, because good news is always boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 news	det
6	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watching	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 boring	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 boring	mark
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 news	amod
10	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 boring	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 boring	cop
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 boring	advmod
13	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stop	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	would	People			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	watch	gerund	People not said here	all news		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme
3	is	present	good news		always, boring property	tree rules

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