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title: ★ What would happen if you panicked at every «storm of the century»… — The best ever and shocking: adverts an… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★ What would happen if you panicked at every «storm of the century» headline? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 47 «The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wro
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# Test 8 · ★ · The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines

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★ What would happen if you panicked at every «storm of the century» headline?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, you · **What happens:** happen, panic · **To what, where:** headline

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 47 «The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines» of the language 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/language/47-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:47-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines:t8:1
# text = ★ What would happen if you panicked at every «storm of the century» headline?
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	panicked	panic	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	headline	headline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **panic** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | headline |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headline=Patient |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Newspapers would stop writing headlines

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:47-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines:t8:o1:1
# text = Newspapers would stop writing headlines
1	Newspapers	newspaper	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	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	headlines	headline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | Newspapers | writing headlines |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality headline=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
You would never see a storm again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:47-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines:t8:o2:1
# text = You would never see a storm again
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | would | You | a storm |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer storm=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
You'd panic several times a year over ordinary storms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:47-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines:t8:o3:1
# text = You'd panic several times a year over ordinary storms
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	panic	panic	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **panic** | would | You |  |  | ordinary storms | time |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
You would be safe from every storm for ever, because you'd always be ready

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:47-the-best-ever-and-shocking-adverts-and-headlines:t8:o4:1
# text = You would be safe from every storm for ever, because you'd always be ready
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | You |  |  | every storm |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | would | you |  |  |  |  | always, ready *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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