Test 2 · ★ · Counting the AI in one ordinary day
What would happen if a spam filter blocked every email from someone new?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: spam filter · What happens: happen, block · To what, where: email, someone
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 19 «Counting the AI in one ordinary day» 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 blocked | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 filter | det |
| 6 | spam | spam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filter | compound |
| 7 | filter | filter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blocked | nsubj |
| 8 | blocked | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 email | det |
| 10 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blocked | obj | ||
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 someone | case |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 email | nmod |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 someone | amod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | 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 | block a condition, not said to happen | past | a spam filter | every email | someone | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer email=Beneficiary from someone=Eventuality |
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
Nobody would ever notice any change
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 notice | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 notice | aux |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 notice | advmod |
| 4 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 change | det |
| 6 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 notice | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | would | Nobody | any change | ever | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus |
Option 2
All scams would stop for ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 scams | det |
| 2 | scams | scam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | aux |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 ever | case |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 stop | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | would | all scams | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Real emails from new people would be lost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 emails | amod |
| 2 | emails | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lost | nsubj:pass | |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 emails | nmod |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 lost | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lost | aux:pass |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | would · passive | Real emails from new people | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
Option 4
The filter would become perfect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 filter | det |
| 2 | filter | filter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 become | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | would | the filter | perfect property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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