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title: Why should you type to an app as if someone else might read it? — Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why should you type to an app as if someone else might read it? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 13 «Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages

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Why should you type to an app as if someone else might read it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, someone · **What happens:** type, read · **To what, where:** app

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 13 «Strangers, hooks and too-perfect 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages:t10:1
# text = Why should you type to an app as if someone else might read it?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	type	type	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	app	app	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
11	else	else	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **type** | should | you |  |  |  |  | to a app | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **read** | might | someone | app |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Apps read everything out loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages:t10:o1:1
# text = Apps read everything out loud
1	Apps	app	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read out** | present | Apps | everything |  |  |  | loud, out *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Typing is always public on TV

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages:t10:o2:1
# text = Typing is always public on TV
1	Typing	typing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Typing |  |  | TV |  | always, public *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Apps delete words that are private

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages:t10:o3:1
# text = Apps delete words that are private
1	Apps	app	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	delete	delete	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **delete** | present | Apps | words |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | words |  |  |  |  | private *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Some apps keep chats to improve their AI

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages:t10:o4:1
# text = Some apps keep chats to improve their AI
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	apps	app	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	improve	improve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | some apps | chats |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Theme |
| 2 | **improve** | to-infinitive | some apps *not said here* | apps's AI |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ai=Patient |

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**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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