Test 3 · ★ · In the news: deepfakes, fake robocalls and history gone wr…

Your friend says, "Computers once took jobs, so nothing good came of them." Which is fairer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, Computers, nothing · What happens: say, take, come, be · To what, where: jobs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 21 «In the news: deepfakes, fake robocalls and history gone wrong» 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

Sentence 1: Your friend says, "Computers once took jobs, so nothing good came of them."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct
6	Computers	Computer	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 took	nsubj
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 took	advmod
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
9	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 took	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 came	nsubj
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nothing	amod
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your friend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take in a quote	past	Computers	jobs	once property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme
3	come in a quote	past	nothing		of Computers = computer	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of they=Initial_Location

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.

Sentence 2: Which is fairer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 fairer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fairer	cop
3	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fairer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fair property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Computers only ever created more jobs for everyone, and nobody lost one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Computers	computer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 created	nsubj:pass
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 created	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 created	advmod
4	created	create	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 jobs	advmod
6	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 created	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 everyone	case
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 created	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lost	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lost	cc
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 lost	nsubj
12	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 created	conj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	create	participle · passive		Computers			ever	for everyone	tree rules
2	lose	past	nobody	one					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Computers have never changed any job at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Computers	computer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 changed	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 changed	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 changed	advmod
4	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 job	det
6	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changed	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 changed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present · perfect · passive		Computers		all			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Some jobs went, new ones came, and the change was hard for some people

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 jobs	det
2	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ones	amod
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hard	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hard	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 change	det
11	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hard	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hard	cop
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 people	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go	past	some jobs		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	new ones		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the change	for some people; hard property	tree rules

Option 4

Computers took every job and gave none back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Computers	computer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 job	det
4	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gave	cc
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
7	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	6 gave	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 gave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Computers	every job					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme
2	give back	past	Computers not said here	none					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=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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