Over-scope
In the third type of inaccuracy, the scope of information is mistakenly
broadened beyond the warrant of the input copy (or sometimes narrowed:
"under-scope"). If place or time adverbials are shifted or deleted, the scope
of the sentence or phrase may be over-extended or over-restricted. We
identify over-scope by questioning the time or place adverbial in the frame
of the output sentence.
An interesting group of scope redefinitions occurred in a story about
flooding in southern Brazil. Most of the details in the early sentences of the
original report concern only one state, and one city in the state, while the
floods also affected at least six other states of Brazil: