Test 4 · ★ · Robots at work and at home

What would happen if a factory robot arm had no sensors or cameras at all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: factory robot arm · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: sensors, all

This is test 4 · ★ 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	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	_	9 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 arm	det
6	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arm	compound
7	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arm	compound
8	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 sensors	det
11	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 cameras	cc
13	cameras	camera	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sensors	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 sensors	nmod
16	?	?	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	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a factory robot arm	no sensors or cameras		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensor=Patient

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

It would work faster and better

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 work	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 work	aux
3	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 work	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 better	cc
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	would	It					fast, well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It could not tell where things are, so it would grab and place them badly

The tree, 15 words

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	4 tell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 tell	ccomp
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 where	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 where	cop
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grab	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 grab	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grab	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 grab	aux
12	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 place	cc
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grab	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grab	obj
16	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 grab	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	could	It			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	things		where property	tree rules
3	grab	would	it	things = thing	badly property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

It would sense things with its smell

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 sense	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sense	aux
3	sense	sense	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sense	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 smell	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 smell	nmod:poss
7	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sense	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense	would	It	things				with its smell	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	smell		its = it						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Nothing, robots need no information

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 robots	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 information	det
6	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Nothing robots	no information					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot information=Theme

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