--- title: Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion», a lesson of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Not all news is the same kind of thing. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / Elections, crime, the weather, breakin… # Elections, crime, the weather, breaking news and news vs opinion Lesson 52 of the adult life course of Mova's primary school: 23 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/0/) — Not all news is the same kind of thing. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/1/) — Some is a report of what happened, some is one person's opinion shouted loudly, some is a forecast of what might happen, and some is just a headline written to make you buy the paper. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/2/) — Clever viewers ask three questions: is this what happened, or what someone thinks? - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/3/) — Is it confirmed, or still coming in? - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/4/) — Who said it, and can I check? - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/5/) — Vivid example: in Toronto, red letters slide across the bottom of a cartoon: BREAKING NEWS. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/6/) — Ollie gasps, "What's broken?" Dad smiles: "Nothing's broken, bud. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/7/) — It means 'just coming in'. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/8/) — The first bits are often wrong. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/9/) — Let's wait for the full story." - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/10/) — Elections, trials and weather warnings all have rules behind them: people vote and can change leaders next time, a person accused is innocent until a court decides, and a warning means "be ready", not "it is certain". - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/11/) — "Breaking news" means news that has only just come in; early details and numbers are often wrong and get corrected later. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/12/) — When two channels give different numbers of people hurt, it is usually because nobody knows the exact number yet, not because one is lying. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/14/) — In a general election grown-ups vote for who will run the country; elections come back every few years, and the losers accept the result and try again. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/15/) — Politicians argue on TV debates to show voters their different ideas, and people in one family can vote differently; disagreeing about ideas is not hating each other. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/16/) — On an election map the colours are the parties' colours, not good or bad places; and what a party promises is in its own published promises, not in playground talk. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/17/) — Local crime news tells neighbours to lock up and helps the police; police chase shows pick the most exciting chases from many months, and real roads are mostly calm. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/18/) — "Charged" means a person has been accused of a crime; a court decides if he did it, and until then he is innocent. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/19/) — A TV weather presenter stands in front of a plain green screen; the map is added by computer, so he points at a screen he watches off to the side. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/20/) — An amber weather warning means bad weather is likely and people should be ready; it does not promise a snow day. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/22/) — Climate change is a real, long-term problem; many scientists and governments are working on it, and small actions add up. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/23/) — Headlines are written to grab you, so read the story underneath; a shocking post that is on no trusted news site is probably fake. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/52-elections-crime-the-weather-breaking-news-and-news-vs-opinion/24/) — Children's news programmes explain the news calmly, without the scariest pictures; a warning that pictures "may be distressing" means you may look away. - ← previous: [Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/) - next →: [Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/) - ↑ back to [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/)