Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★
Headline: "ROBOTS WILL TAKE EVERY SINGLE JOB BY NEXT WEEK!!" What's the wise reading?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ROBOTS, wise reading · What happens: take, be · To what, where: SINGLE JOB
This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky 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
Sentence 1: Headline: "ROBOTS WILL TAKE EVERY SINGLE JOB BY NEXT WEEK!!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Headline | headline | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 TAKE | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 TAKE | punct |
| 4 | ROBOTS | robot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 TAKE | nsubj |
| 5 | WILL | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 TAKE | aux |
| 6 | TAKE | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Headline | appos |
| 7 | EVERY | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 JOB | det |
| 8 | SINGLE | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 JOB | amod |
| 9 | JOB | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 TAKE | obj |
| 10 | BY | by | ADV | _ | 6 TAKE | advmod |
| 11 | NEXT | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 WEEK | amod |
| 12 | WEEK | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 TAKE | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | !! | !! | PUNCT | _ | 6 TAKE | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 TAKE | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | future | ROBOTS | every SINGLE JOB | week | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme |
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: What's the wise reading?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reading | det |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reading | amod |
| 5 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the wise reading | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Only the jobs that start with R will go
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 jobs | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 jobs | det |
| 3 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 go | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 start | nsubj |
| 5 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 jobs | acl:relcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 R | case |
| 7 | R | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 start | obl |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | the jobs | with R | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with r=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | future | the jobs | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Robots have already taken all the jobs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robots | robot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 taken | advmod |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 jobs | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jobs | det |
| 7 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taken | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · perfect · passive | Robots | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme job=Destination |
Option 3
Every job really will be gone next week
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 job | det |
| 2 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 gone | advmod |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gone | aux:pass |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 week | amod |
| 8 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future · passive | every job | week | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It's hyperbole; read beyond the headline
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 hyperbole | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hyperbole | cop |
| 3 | hyperbole | hyperbole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 read | punct |
| 5 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 hyperbole | parataxis |
| 6 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 8 headline | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 headline | det |
| 8 | headline | headline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 read | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | hyperbole | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | read | infinitive | beyond the headline | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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