Test 2 · ★★ · Accidents, wars and deaths on the news

What would happen if every car crash in the country was on the news?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: car crash · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: news

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» of the religion ethics 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	_	14 news	mark
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 crash	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crash	compound
7	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 news	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 country	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 country	det
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crash	nmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 news	cop
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 news	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 news	det
14	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	advcl
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	is a condition, not said to happen	past	every car crash in the country			the news			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.

The options

Option 1

There would be no crashes left anywhere, because everyone would be scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 crashes	det
5	crashes	crash	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 crashes	acl
7	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 left	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 scared	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 scared	mark
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 scared	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 scared	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 scared	cop
13	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 be	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	would	no crashes		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	participle		no crashes not said here		anywhere property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	would	everyone			scared property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The news would be full of them, but most journeys would still be safe

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 news	det
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 full	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 full	cop
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 full	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 safe	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 safe	cc
10	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 journeys	amod
11	journeys	journey	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 safe	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 safe	aux
13	still	still	ADV	_	15 safe	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 safe	cop
15	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 full	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the news					of them = they; full property	tree rules
2	is	would	most journeys				still	safe property	tree rules

Option 3

Seat belts would stop working in cars all around the country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 belts	compound
2	belts	belt	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 cars	case
7	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 working	obl
8	all	all	ADV	_	11 country	advmod
9	around	around	ADP	_	11 country	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 country	det
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 working	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Seat belts						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	Seat belts not said here					around the country; in cars	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in car=Theme

Option 4

Every journey anyone made would be very dangerous indeed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 anyone	det
2	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 anyone	compound
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 dangerous	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 anyone	acl
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 dangerous	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 dangerous	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 dangerous	advmod
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 dangerous	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	is	would	anyone					dangerous, indeed property	tree rules

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