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title: Gran watches the telly: "It's all bad news, love." What would happen… — Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, sp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gran watches the telly: "It's all bad news, love." What would happen if the news reported slow good changes as often as disasters? 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, with the depe
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the…

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

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better:t11:1
# text = Gran watches the telly: "It's all bad news, love."
1	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	watches	watch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	telly	telly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 would happen if the news reported slow good changes as often as disasters?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better:t11:2
# text = What would happen if the news reported slow good changes as often as disasters?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	14	cc	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
14	disasters	disaster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nothing would be different

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better:t11:o1:1
# text = Nothing would be different
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better:t11:o2:1
# text = The world would seem less hopeless, closer to what the data shows
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	data	data	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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The world would get worse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better:t11:o3:1
# text = The world would get worse
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:79-worries-and-hopes-is-the-world-getting-better:t11:o4:1
# text = People would stop watching all news, because good news is always boring
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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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**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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