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title: What would happen if a country's only TV channel was run by the lead… — Propaganda and fake news · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a country's only TV channel was run by the leader and never showed bad news? Test 7 of lesson 31 «Propaganda and fake news» of the politics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · Propaganda and fake news

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What would happen if a country's only TV channel was run by the leader and never showed bad news?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** leader, country · **What happens:** happen, run, not show, channel · **To what, where:** only TV channel, bad news

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This is test 7 of lesson 31 «Propaganda and fake news» 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/31-propaganda-and-fake-news/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:31-propaganda-and-fake-news:t7:1
# text = What would happen if a country's only TV channel was run by the leader and never showed bad news?
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	_	12	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	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 | **run** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | the leader | a country's only TV channel |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **show** | past | the leader *not said here* | bad news |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent news=Recipient |
| 4 | **channel** |  | a country |  |  |  |  |  | nom channel «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#o1}

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The country would have no leader any more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:31-propaganda-and-fake-news:t7:o1:1
# text = The country would have no leader any more
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	any	any	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | the country | no leader |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The leader would be criticised every night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:31-propaganda-and-fake-news:t7:o2:1
# text = The leader would be criticised every night
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	criticised	criticise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **criticise** | would · passive |  | the leader |  |  | night |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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People would hear every side of every story

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:31-propaganda-and-fake-news:t7:o3:1
# text = People would hear every side of every story
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | would | People | every side of every story |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer side=Stimulus |

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

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People could not hear what the leader gets wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:politics:31-propaganda-and-fake-news:t7:o4:1
# text = People could not hear what the leader gets wrong
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** | could | People |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get** | present | the leader |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

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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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