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title: A boomer neighbour says, "In my day the news was just facts, none of… — The news: who makes it and how · tree and pragmatics
description: A boomer neighbour says, "In my day the news was just facts, none of this opinion jazz." Which is true today? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 10 «The news: who makes it and how» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 3 · ★ · The news: who makes it and how

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A boomer neighbour says, "In my day the news was just facts, none of this opinion jazz." Which is true today?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boomer neighbour, news · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** facts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 10 «The news: who makes it and how» of the politics 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/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boomer neighbour says, "In my day the news was just facts, none of this opinion jazz."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how:t3:1
# text = A boomer neighbour says, "In my day the news was just facts, none of this opinion jazz."
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	boomer	boomer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	In	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	jazz	jazz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a boomer neighbour |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the news | facts |  |  | day |  | 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:* Which is true today?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how:t3:2
# text = Which is true today?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | today | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The news today is only opinion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how:t3:o1:1
# text = The news today is only opinion
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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News and opinion can be on the same channel, so it helps to ask which you are hearing

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how:t3:o2:1
# text = News and opinion can be on the same channel, so it helps to ask which you are hearing
1	News	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | News and opinion |  |  | the same channel |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | present | channel |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | channel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hear** | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Opinion is never allowed on the news by law, so everything a news channel says is plain fact

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how:t3:o3:1
# text = Opinion is never allowed on the news by law, so everything a news channel says is plain fact
1	Opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	csubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | present · passive | law | Opinion |  | the news |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | everything |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | plain fact |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Facts were only invented recently

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how:t3:o4:1
# text = Facts were only invented recently
1	Facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	invented	invent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invent** | past · passive |  | Facts |  |  |  | recently *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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