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title: What would happen if Maddie took the bot's book list straight to the… — Stories, jokes and riddles with a chat… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Maddie took the bot's book list straight to the library without checking? Test 3 of lesson 4 «Stories, jokes and riddles with a 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 right
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# Test 3 · Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot

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What would happen if Maddie took the bot's book list straight to the library without checking?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Maddie, bot · **What happens:** happen, take, check, list · **To what, where:** book list

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This is test 3 of lesson 4 «Stories, jokes and riddles with a 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/4-stories-jokes-and-riddles/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:4-stories-jokes-and-riddles:t3:1
# text = What would happen if Maddie took the bot's book list straight to the library without checking?
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	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
16	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	checking	check	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	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 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Maddie | the bot's book list |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument list=Theme library=Destination |
| 3 | **check** | gerund | Maddie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **list** |  | the bot |  |  |  |  |  | nom list «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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She might hunt for books that don't exist

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:4-stories-jokes-and-riddles:t3:o1:1
# text = She might hunt for books that don't exist
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | might | She |  |  |  |  | for books | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for book=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **exist** | present · do-support | books |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The books would appear on the shelf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:4-stories-jokes-and-riddles:t3:o2:1
# text = The books would appear on the shelf
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | would | the books |  |  | the shelf |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shelf=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The librarian would know the bot was lying

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:4-stories-jokes-and-riddles:t3:o3:1
# text = The librarian would know the bot was lying
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	librarian	librarian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bot	bot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | would | the librarian |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lie** | past · progressive | the bot |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The library would print the books for her on the spot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:4-stories-jokes-and-riddles:t3:o4:1
# text = The library would print the books for her on the spot
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	print	print	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **print** | would | the library | the books |  | the spot |  | for her *= she* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme on spot=Destination |

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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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