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# Test 3 · ★ · Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them

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Your mate: "Plane crashed, it's all over the telly, I'm NEVER flying to Spain lol." What's the honest answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, I, honest answer · **What happens:** crash, be, not fly · **To what, where:** telly, Spain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 51 «Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them» of the adult life 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate: "Plane crashed, it's all over the telly, I'm NEVER flying to Spain lol."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them:t3:1
# text = Your mate: "Plane crashed, it's all over the telly, I'm NEVER flying to Spain lol."
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Plane	Plane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	crashed	crash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	telly	telly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	NEVER	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crash** *in a quote* | past | Your mate |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | mate |  |  | the telly |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **fly** *in a quote* | present · progressive | I |  | Spain |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to spain=Result |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's the honest answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them:t3:2
# text = What's the honest answer?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the honest answer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Only planes to Spain ever crash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them:t3:o1:1
# text = Only planes to Spain ever crash
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	planes	plane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He's right; flying is the most dangerous thing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them:t3:o2:1
# text = He's right; flying is the most dangerous thing
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | He |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the flying dangerous thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Planes crash every single day but the airlines hide it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them:t3:o3:1
# text = Planes crash every single day but the airlines hide it
1	Planes	plane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crash	crash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	airlines	airline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crash** | present | Planes |  |  |  | day |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **hide** | present | the airlines | it |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Crashes are news because they almost never happen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them:t3:o4:1
# text = Crashes are news because they almost never happen
1	Crashes	crash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Crashes | news |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **happen** | infinitive | Crashes *= crash* | news *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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**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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