Test 3 · "Crime is up, I saw it on the news"

What would happen if the news showed a story about every safe car trip and every safe flight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: news · What happens: happen, show · To what, where: story

This is test 3 of lesson 177 «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» of the world 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	_	7 showed	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 news	det
6	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 showed	nsubj
7	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 showed	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	14 trip	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 trip	det
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 trip	amod
13	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trip	compound
14	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 story	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 flight	cc
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 flight	det
17	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flight	amod
18	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trip	conj
19	?	?	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	show a condition, not said to happen	past	the news	a story				about every safe car trip and every safe flight	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about trip=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

Plane crashes would become more common

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crashes	compound
2	crashes	crash	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 common	advmod
6	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Plane crashes					common property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The roads would suddenly get more dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roads	det
2	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 dangerous	advmod
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would never end, which is why news shows only the rare things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 end	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 end	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 end	advmod
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 why	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 why	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 why	cop
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 shows	advmod
9	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shows	nsubj
10	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 end	acl:relcl
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 things	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 things	det
13	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 things	amod
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not end	would	It			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	present			why property	tree rules
3	show	present	news	the rare things		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient

Option 4

Nobody would ever dare to fly again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 dare	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dare	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 dare	advmod
4	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fly	mark
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dare	xcomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dare	would	Nobody				ever		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fly	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here				again		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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