--- title: It is given that burglaries in a village increased from two in one y… — "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" · tree and pragmatics description: It is given that burglaries in a village increased from two in one year to three in the next. Determine the number of additional burglaries thereby represented. Exam question 2 of lesson 177 «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" It is given that burglaries in a village increased from two in one year to three in the next. Determine the number of additional burglaries thereby represented. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, additional burglaries · **What happens:** give, increase, determine, represent · **To what, where:** It, village, two, number This is exam question 2 of lesson 177 «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/#e2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* It is given that burglaries in a village increased from two in one year to three in the next. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news:e2:1 # text = It is given that burglaries in a village increased from two in one year to three in the next. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 that that ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 burglaries burglary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 increased increase VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present · passive | | It | | a village | | that burglaries | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **increase** | participle | | a village *not said here* | | two | year | to three in the next *result* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient from two=Initial\_State to three=Result | 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. *Sentence 2:* Determine the number of additional burglaries thereby represented. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news:e2:2 # text = Determine the number of additional burglaries thereby represented. 1 Determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 additional additional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 burglaries burglary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 thereby thereby ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 represented represent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of additional burglaries | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **represent** | past | additional burglaries *not said here* | | | | | thereby *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Fifty additional burglaries ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news:e2:o1:1 # text = Fifty additional burglaries 1 Fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 additional additional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 burglaries burglary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} One additional burglary ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news:e2:o2:1 # text = One additional burglary 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 additional additional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 burglary burglary NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Three additional burglaries ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news:e2:o3:1 # text = Three additional burglaries 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 additional additional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 burglaries burglary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Two additional burglaries ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news:e2:o4:1 # text = Two additional burglaries 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 additional additional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 burglaries burglary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. - ← previous: ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news", exam 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/e1/) - next →: ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news", exam 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/e3/) - ↑ back to ["Crime is up, I saw it on the news"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/)