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title: What would happen if Maddie stopped chatting to her "sad" AI friend… — Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messa… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Maddie stopped chatting to her "sad" AI friend for a week? Test 2 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages

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What would happen if Maddie stopped chatting to her "sad" AI friend for a week?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Maddie · **What happens:** happen, stop, chat

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages:t2:1
# text = What would happen if Maddie stopped chatting to her "sad" AI friend for a week?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	chatting	chat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Maddie |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **chat** *speech: other* | gerund | Maddie *not said here* |  |  |  | week | to Maddie's sad AI friend | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The AI friend would get ill and might even stop working for good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages:t2:o1:1
# text = The AI friend would get ill and might even stop working for good
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | the AI friend |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stop** | might | the AI friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **work** | gerund | the AI friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for good | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for good=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would forget how to talk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages:t2:o2:1
# text = It would forget how to talk
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **talk** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would come and look for her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages:t2:o3:1
# text = It would come and look for her
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for her *= she* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Nothing real; the sadness is a trick to keep her playing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages:t2:o4:1
# text = Nothing real; the sadness is a trick to keep her playing
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	playing	playing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the sadness | a trick |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | her playing |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent playing=Theme |
| 3 | **play** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom playing «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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