Test 10 · ★ · Robots at work and at home

«robots will take every single job, there'll be nothing left for us» What is closer to the truth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: robots · What happens: take, leave, be · To what, where: single job · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 39 «Robots at work and at home» of the technology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
2	robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 job	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 job	amod
7	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 be	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 be	expl
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 be	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	advcl
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 be	nsubj
13	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 nothing	acl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 us	case
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 left	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 closer	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 closer	cop
19	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 take	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 truth	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 truth	det
22	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 closer	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	future	robots	every single job		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent job=Theme clause=Attribute
2	leave in a quote	participle			for us	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for we=Recipient
3	is	present			to the truth; close 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

Robots only work on Mars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 work	advmod
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 Mars	case
5	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Robots					on Mars	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on mars=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Robots take over repetitive tasks, and people still design, fix and run them

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	nsubj
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	2 take	compound:prt
4	repetitive	repetitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tasks	amod
5	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 take	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 design	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 design	cc
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 design	nsubj
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 design	advmod
10	design	design	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 take	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fix	punct
12	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 design	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 run	cc
14	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 design	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 run	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	take over	present	Robots	repetitive tasks		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme
2	design	present	people		still	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fix	present	people not said here			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	run	present	people not said here	people		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory

Option 3

Robots cannot do any job at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 do	advmod
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 job	det
6	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	can	Robots	any job		all			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality

Option 4

Robots already do every job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 do	nsubj
2	already	already	ADV	_	3 do	advmod
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 job	det
5	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Robots	every job					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality

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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