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title: What would happen if the email sorter put the boss's urgent email in… — Cars, doctors, scientists and translat… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if the email sorter put the boss's urgent email in the junk pile and nobody checked? Test 3 of lesson 18 «Cars, doctors, scientists and translators» 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 
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# Test 3 · Cars, doctors, scientists and translators

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What would happen if the email sorter put the boss's urgent email in the junk pile and nobody checked?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** email sorter, nobody, boss · **What happens:** happen, put, check, email · **To what, where:** urgent email, junk pile

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This is test 3 of lesson 18 «Cars, doctors, scientists and translators» 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/18-cars-doctors-translators/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:18-cars-doctors-translators:t3:1
# text = What would happen if the email sorter put the boss's urgent email in the junk pile and nobody checked?
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	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	email	email	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	urgent	urgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	email	email	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	junk	junk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	nsubj	_	_
20	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	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 | **put** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the email sorter | the boss's urgent email |  | the junk pile |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent email=Theme in pile=Destination |
| 3 | **check** | participle | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **email** |  | the boss |  |  |  |  |  | nom email «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Something important could be missed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:18-cars-doctors-translators:t3:o1:1
# text = Something important could be missed
1	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	missed	miss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | could · passive |  | Something |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The sorter would apologise to the boss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:18-cars-doctors-translators:t3:o2:1
# text = The sorter would apologise to the boss
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sorter	sorter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	apologise	apologise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | would | the sorter |  |  |  |  | to the boss | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The email would move itself back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:18-cars-doctors-translators:t3:o3:1
# text = The email would move itself back
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	email	email	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move back** | would | the email | email |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The boss would never send emails again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:18-cars-doctors-translators:t3:o4:1
# text = The boss would never send emails again
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	emails	email	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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

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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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