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# Test 2 · ★★ · In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words

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What would happen if voters trusted a chatbot's out-of-date answer about where to vote?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** voters, chatbot · **What happens:** happen, trust, vote, answer · **To what, where:** out date answer

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 23 «In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words» 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/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries:t2:1
# text = What would happen if voters trusted a chatbot's out-of-date answer about where to vote?
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	voters	voter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	trusted	trust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	out	out	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
16	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	vote	vote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	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 | **trust** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | voters | a chatbot's out date answer |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
| 3 | **vote** | to-infinitive | voters *not said here* | a chatbot's out date answer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **answer** |  | a chatbot |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «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 {#o1}

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Nothing, chatbots always know the newest details of every election

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries:t2:o1:1
# text = Nothing, chatbots always know the newest details of every election
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	chatbots	chatbot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	newest	new	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | chatbots | Nothing |  |  |  | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer detail=Stimulus |
| 2 | **detail** |  |  | every election |  |  |  |  | nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The chatbot would update the election for them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries:t2:o2:1
# text = The chatbot would update the election for them
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	update	update	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **update** *speech: other* | would | the chatbot | the election |  |  |  | for them *= they* | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent election=Recipient |

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

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Some might go to the wrong place or miss their chance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries:t2:o3:1
# text = Some might go to the wrong place or miss their chance
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	miss	miss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | might | Some |  |  | the wrong place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **miss** | infinitive | Some *not said here* | their chance |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus |
| 3 | **chance** |  | their *= they* |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The election would be moved to match

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries:t2:o4:1
# text = The election would be moved to match
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	election	election	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	match	match	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | would · passive |  | the election |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **match** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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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