Test 3 · Cars, doctors, scientists and translators

What would happen if the email sorter put the boss's urgent email in the junk pile and nobody checked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: email sorter, nobody, boss · What happens: happen, put, check, email · To what, where: urgent email, junk pile

This is test 3 of lesson 18 «Cars, doctors, scientists and translators» 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	_	8 put	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sorter	det
6	email	email	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sorter	compound
7	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	nsubj
8	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boss	det
10	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 email	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 boss	case
12	urgent	urgent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 email	amod
13	email	email	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 pile	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pile	det
16	junk	junk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pile	compound
17	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 checked	cc
19	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 checked	nsubj
20	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 put	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put a condition, not said to happen	past	the email sorter	the boss's urgent email	the junk pile	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent email=Theme in pile=Destination
3	check	participle	nobody			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	email		the boss			nom email «communication transitive»: poss=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 right answer

Something important could be missed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 missed	nsubj:pass
2	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Something	amod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 missed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 missed	aux:pass
5	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	could · passive		Something					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

Option 2

The sorter would apologise to the boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sorter	det
2	sorter	sorter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 apologise	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 apologise	aux
4	apologise	apologise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 boss	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boss	det
7	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 apologise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apologise speech: apologize	would	the sorter					to the boss	tree rules

Option 3

The email would move itself back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 email	det
2	email	email	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 move	aux
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 move	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move back	would	the email	email					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Theme

Option 4

The boss would never send emails again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boss	det
2	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 send	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 send	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 send	advmod
5	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	emails	email	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 send	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 send	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not send	would	the boss	emails			again		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent email=Theme

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