Test 2 · ★ · Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages

What would happen if Maddie stopped chatting to her "sad" AI friend for a week?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Maddie · What happens: happen, stop, chat

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 13 «Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages» of the AI 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 stopped	mark
5	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	nsubj
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	chatting	chat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stopped	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	14 friend	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 friend	nmod:poss
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 sad	punct
11	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 friend	amod
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 sad	punct
13	AI	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 friend	compound
14	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chatting	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 week	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 week	det
17	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chatting	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	Maddie			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	chat speech: other	gerund	Maddie not said here	week	to Maddie's sad AI friend	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The AI friend would get ill and might even stop working for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 friend	det
2	AI	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 friend	compound
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stop	cc
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stop	aux
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 stop	advmod
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 get	conj
11	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stop	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 good	case
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 working	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get	would	the AI friend	ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	stop	might	the AI friend not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	work	gerund	the AI friend not said here	for good	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for good=Beneficiary

Option 2

It would forget how to talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forget	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 talk	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 talk	mark
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forget	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	It						tree rules
2	not talk	to-infinitive							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It would come and look for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 look	cc
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	It						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	infinitive						for her = she	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing real; the sadness is a trick to keep her playing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 trick	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sadness	det
5	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trick	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 trick	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trick	det
8	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	appos
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 trick	acl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 playing	nmod:poss
12	playing	playing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the sadness	a trick	tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive		her playing	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent playing=Theme
3	play		her = she		nom playing «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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