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title: What would happen if the news showed a story about every safe car tr… — "Crime is up, I saw it on the news" · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if the news showed a story about every safe car trip and every safe flight? Test 3 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 and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 3 · "Crime is up, I saw it on the news"

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What would happen if the news showed a story about every safe car trip and every safe flight?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** news · **What happens:** happen, show · **To what, where:** story

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This is test 3 of lesson 177 «"Crime is up, I saw it on the news"» of the world 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/world/177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news:t3:1
# text = What would happen if the news showed a story about every safe car trip and every safe flight?
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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
12	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	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 | **show** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the news | a story |  |  |  | about every safe car trip and every safe flight | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about trip=Topic |

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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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Plane crashes would become more common

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news:t3:o1:1
# text = Plane crashes would become more common
1	Plane	plane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	crashes	crash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | Plane crashes |  |  |  |  | common *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The roads would suddenly get more dangerous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news:t3:o2:1
# text = The roads would suddenly get more dangerous
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | the roads |  |  |  |  | dangerous, suddenly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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

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It would never end, which is why news shows only the rare things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news:t3:o3:1
# text = It would never end, which is why news shows only the rare things
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **end** | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | present | news | the rare things |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nobody would ever dare to fly again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:177-crime-is-up-i-saw-it-on-the-news:t3:o4:1
# text = Nobody would ever dare to fly again
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dare** | would | Nobody |  |  |  | ever |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fly** | to-infinitive | Nobody *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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