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title: What would happen if every car crash in the country was on the news? — Accidents, wars and deaths on the news · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if every car crash in the country was on the news? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 2 · ★★ · Accidents, wars and deaths on the news

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What would happen if every car crash in the country was on the news?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** car crash · **What happens:** happen, be · **To what, where:** news

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Accidents, wars and deaths on the news» of the religion ethics 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/religion-ethics/60-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:60-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news:t2:1
# text = What would happen if every car crash in the country was on the 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	_	14	mark	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	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 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | every car crash in the country |  |  | the news |  |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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There would be no crashes left anywhere, because everyone would be scared

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:60-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news:t2:o1:1
# text = There would be no crashes left anywhere, because everyone would be scared
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	crashes	crash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | would | no crashes |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | participle |  | no crashes *not said here* |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | would | everyone |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The news would be full of them, but most journeys would still be safe

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:60-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news:t2:o2:1
# text = The news would be full of them, but most journeys would still be safe
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	journeys	journey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the news |  |  |  |  | of them *= they*; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | would | most journeys |  |  |  | still | safe *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Seat belts would stop working in cars all around the country

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:60-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news:t2:o3:1
# text = Seat belts would stop working in cars all around the country
1	Seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	belts	belt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | Seat belts |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **work** | gerund | Seat belts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around the country; in cars | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in car=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Every journey anyone made would be very dangerous indeed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:60-accidents-wars-and-deaths-on-the-news:t2:o4:1
# text = Every journey anyone made would be very dangerous indeed
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | would | anyone |  |  |  |  | dangerous, indeed *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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