Test 10 · ★★ · Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves

«if robots do all the boring jobs, what's left for me when i grow up, nothing» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: robots, i, best answer · What happens: do, leave, grow up, be · To what, where: boring jobs, nothing

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves» 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	_	12 left	punct
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 do	mark
3	robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 left	advcl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 jobs	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 jobs	det
7	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 jobs	amod
8	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 left	nsubj:pass
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 left	aux:pass
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 left	obl
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 grow	advmod
16	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 grow	nsubj
17	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 left	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 grow	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 nothing	punct
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 left	obl
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 nothing	punct
22	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 nothing	nmod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 What	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 answer	det
25	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 answer	amod
26	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 What	nsubj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	robots	all boring jobs		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
2	leave in a quote	present · passive		nothing	for me	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme for i=Recipient
3	grow up in a quote	present	i			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	the best answer			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 right answer

People design, build, fix and run machines, and new jobs keep appearing

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 design	nsubj
2	design	design	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 build	punct
4	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 design	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fix	punct
6	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 design	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 run	cc
8	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 design	conj
9	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 run	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 keep	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 keep	cc
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 jobs	amod
13	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 keep	nsubj
14	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 design	conj
15	appearing	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	design	present	People		vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	build	present	People not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
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	machines	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme machine=Trajectory
5	keep	present	new jobs		tree rules
6	appear	gerund	new jobs not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

You will have to work for the robots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 work	mark
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 robots	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 robots	det
8	robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	future	You						tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	You not said here					for the robots	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for robot=Beneficiary

Option 3

Nothing, robots will do every job

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	5 do	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 job	det
7	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	future	Nothing robots	every job					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality

Option 4

Only jobs on Mars will be left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 jobs	advmod
2	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 left	nsubj:pass
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 Mars	case
4	Mars	Mars	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 jobs	nmod
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 left	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 left	aux:pass
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	future · passive		jobs on Mars					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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