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title: Why might a robot dog or rover be sent somewhere instead of a person… — Robots at work and at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might a robot dog or rover be sent somewhere instead of a person, like into a broken building? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 39 «Robots at work and at home» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was ri
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# Test 11 · ★ · Robots at work and at home

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Why might a robot dog or rover be sent somewhere instead of a person, like into a broken building?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** send, break · **To what, where:** robot dog

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 39 «Robots at work and at home» of the technology 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/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:39-robots-at-work-and-at-home:t11:1
# text = Why might a robot dog or rover be sent somewhere instead of a person, like into a broken building?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	robot	robot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	rover	rover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
11	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | might · passive |  | a robot dog or rover |  |  |  | instead a person; like a broken building; somewhere *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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The place is too dangerous for people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:39-robots-at-work-and-at-home:t11:o1:1
# text = The place is too dangerous for people
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	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 | **is** | present | the place |  |  |  |  | for people; dangerous *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Robots like dark places

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:39-robots-at-work-and-at-home:t11:o2:1
# text = Robots like dark places
1	Robots	robot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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People are not allowed to walk on floors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:39-robots-at-work-and-at-home:t11:o3:1
# text = People are not allowed to walk on floors
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **allow** | present · passive |  | People |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **walk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | People *not said here* |  |  | floors |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Robots are cheaper than a sandwich

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:39-robots-at-work-and-at-home:t11:o4:1
# text = Robots are cheaper than a sandwich
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	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Robots |  |  |  |  | than a sandwich; cheap *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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