Test 2 · ★ · In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot

What would have happened if the lawyers had looked up each case first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, look up · To what, where: lawyers

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 20 «In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot» 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	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 looked	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lawyers	det
7	lawyers	lawyer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 looked	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looked	aux
9	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happened	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 looked	compound:prt
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 case	det
12	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	obj
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 looked	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look up a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the lawyers				first property	tree rules

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 judge would have fined them anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fined	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fined	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 fined	aux
5	fined	fine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fined	obj
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 fined	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fine	would · perfect · passive		the judge				anyway property	vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient they=Asset

Option 2

The chatbot would have been angry with them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chatbot	det
2	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 angry	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 angry	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 angry	cop
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	the chatbot					with them = they; angry property	tree rules

Option 3

The cases would have become real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cases	det
2	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 become	aux
5	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would · perfect	the cases					real property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They would have found the cases did not exist

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 found	aux
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cases	det
6	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 exist	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 exist	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 exist	advmod
9	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 found	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would · perfect	They						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not exist	past · do-support	the cases						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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