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description: A cartoon scam email is full of spelling mistakes, so the hero spots it. What's out of date? Test 3 · ★ 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 wr
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# Test 3 · ★ · Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages

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A cartoon scam email is full of spelling mistakes, so the hero spots it. What's out of date?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** scam email, hero · **What happens:** be, spot · **To what, where:** email, date

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon scam email is full of spelling mistakes, so the hero spots it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages:t3:1
# text = A cartoon scam email is full of spelling mistakes, so the hero spots it.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	scam	scam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	email	email	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	spots	spot	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a scam email |  |  |  |  | of spelling mistakes; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spot** | present | the hero | email |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's out of date?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages:t3:2
# text = What's out of date?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | date |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Banks never send emails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages:t3:o1:1
# text = Banks never send emails
1	Banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	emails	email	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **send** | present | Banks | emails |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent email=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Heroes don't read emails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages:t3:o2:1
# text = Heroes don't read emails
1	Heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	emails	email	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **read** | present · do-support | Heroes | emails |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent email=Topic |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Scam emails can now be perfect, thanks to AI

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages:t3:o3:1
# text = Scam emails can now be perfect, thanks to AI
1	Scam	scam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	emails	email	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | Scam emails |  |  |  | now | thanks to AI *obl*; perfect *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Scam emails never have any mistakes in them at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages:t3:o4:1
# text = Scam emails never have any mistakes in them at all
1	Scam	scam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	emails	email	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present | Scam emails | any mistakes |  | all |  | in mistakes *= mistake* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=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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