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title: What would happen if a spam filter blocked every email from someone… — Counting the AI in one ordinary day · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a spam filter blocked every email from someone new? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 19 «Counting the AI in one ordinary day» 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 2 · ★ · Counting the AI in one ordinary day

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What would happen if a spam filter blocked every email from someone new?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** spam filter · **What happens:** happen, block · **To what, where:** email, someone

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 19 «Counting the AI in one ordinary day» 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/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day:t2:1
# text = What would happen if a spam filter blocked every email from someone new?
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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	spam	spam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	filter	filter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	blocked	block	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	email	email	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nmod	_	_
13	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	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 | **block** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a spam filter | every email |  | someone |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer email=Beneficiary from someone=Eventuality |

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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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Nobody would ever notice any change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day:t2:o1:1
# text = Nobody would ever notice any change
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | would | Nobody | any change |  |  | ever |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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All scams would stop for ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day:t2:o2:1
# text = All scams would stop for ever
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	scams	scam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | all scams |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Real emails from new people would be lost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day:t2:o3:1
# text = Real emails from new people would be lost
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	emails	email	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	lost	lose	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 | **lose** | would · passive |  | Real emails from new people |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The filter would become perfect

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day:t2:o4:1
# text = The filter would become perfect
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	filter	filter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | the filter |  |  |  |  | perfect *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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