Test 5 · Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines

What would happen if everyone read only headlines?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: happen, read · To what, where: headlines

This is test 5 of lesson 33 «Cherry-picked clips and clickbait headlines» of the politics 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 read	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 read	nsubj
6	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 headlines	advmod
8	headlines	headline	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 read	obj
9	?	?	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	read a condition, not said to happen	past	everyone	headlines					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headline=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

Headlines would start saying "maybe" more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Headlines	headline	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 start	xcomp
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 maybe	punct
6	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 maybe	punct
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 saying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	Headlines						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Headlines not said here	more					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone would know the full story, because headlines say everything

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 story	det
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	amod
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 say	mark
9	headlines	headline	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 say	nsubj
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 know	parataxis
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	Everyone	the full story					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	headlines	everything					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent everything=Topic

Option 3

News sites would stop making money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	News	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sites	compound
2	sites	site	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 making	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	News sites						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	make	gerund	News sites not said here	money					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Stronger claims than the stories say would spread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 claims	amod
2	claims	claim	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spread	nsubj
3	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 say	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stories	det
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 claims	acl
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 spread	aux
8	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the stories	Stronger claims not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent claim=Topic
2	spread	would	Stronger claims						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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