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title: The man believed the airline's chatbot. Was that silly? — In the news: invented court cases and… · tree and pragmatics
description: The man believed the airline's chatbot. Was that silly? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 20 «In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot» 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 10 · ★ · In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot

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The man believed the airline's chatbot. Was that silly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** believe · **To what, where:** chatbot

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 20 «In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot» 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/20-news-court-cases-airline/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* The man believed the airline's chatbot.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:20-news-court-cases-airline:t10:1
# text = The man believed the airline's chatbot.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	airline	airline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | past | the man | the airline's chatbot |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chatbot=Stimulus |

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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:* Was that silly?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:20-news-court-cases-airline:t10:2
# text = Was that silly?
1	Was	was	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yes, he should have asked a different bot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:20-news-court-cases-airline:t10:o1:1
# text = Yes, he should have asked a different bot
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | should · perfect | he | a different bot |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bot=Recipient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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No, people expect a company's website to be right

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:20-news-court-cases-airline:t10:o2:1
# text = No, people expect a company's website to be right
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	expect	expect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	website	website	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | present | people | a company's website |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent website=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, nobody should ever believe a website

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:20-news-court-cases-airline:t10:o3:1
# text = Yes, nobody should ever believe a website
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	website	website	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | should | nobody | a website |  |  | ever |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer website=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No, because chatbots are never wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:20-news-court-cases-airline:t10:o4:1
# text = No, because chatbots are never wrong
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	chatbots	chatbot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | chatbots |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

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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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