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title: In a cartoon, a robot teacher hugs a crying child and makes everythi… — The future: fears, rules and your part · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon, a robot teacher hugs a crying child and makes everything better. What would Lily's teacher say? Test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «The future: fears, rules and your part» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 5 · ★★★ · The future: fears, rules and your part

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In a cartoon, a robot teacher hugs a crying child and makes everything better. What would Lily's teacher say?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** robot teacher, teacher · **What happens:** hug, cry, make, say · **To what, where:** crying child, cartoon, everything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «The future: fears, rules and your part» 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/25-future-fears-rules/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, a robot teacher hugs a crying child and makes everything better.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:25-future-fears-rules:t5:1
# text = In a cartoon, a robot teacher hugs a crying child and makes everything better.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hugs	hug	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hug** | present | a robot teacher | a crying child |  | a cartoon |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | present | a robot teacher *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product |

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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 would Lily's teacher say?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:25-future-fears-rules:t5:2
# text = What would Lily's teacher say?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | Lily's teacher |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Robots are better at hugs than people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:25-future-fears-rules:t5:o1:1
# text = Robots are better at hugs than people
1	Robots	robot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	hugs	hug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Robots |  |  | hugs |  | than people; good *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cartoons show what all schools are like now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:25-future-fears-rules:t5:o2:1
# text = Cartoons show what all schools are like now
1	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	obj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Cartoons |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | all schools |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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Real caring and comfort come from people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:25-future-fears-rules:t5:o3:1
# text = Real caring and comfort come from people
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	caring	caring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Real caring and comfort |  |  |  |  | from people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from people=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Children don't need comfort at school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:25-future-fears-rules:t5:o4:1
# text = Children don't need comfort at school
1	Children	child	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	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | Children | comfort |  | school |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot comfort=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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