Test 11 · What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people

The robot hoover keeps bumping into the same chair leg. What does that show?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robot hoover, that · What happens: keep, bump, show · To what, where: same chair leg

This is test 11 of lesson 1 «What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: The robot hoover keeps bumping into the same chair leg.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hoover	det
2	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hoover	compound
3	hoover	hoover	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bumping	bump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	xcomp
6	into	into	ADP	_	10 leg	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 leg	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 leg	amod
9	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leg	compound
10	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bumping	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the robot hoover						tree rules
2	bump	gerund	the robot hoover not said here			the same chair leg			vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into leg=Location

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.

Sentence 2: What does that show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	that						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is angry with the chair and keeps trying to knock it over on purpose

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 angry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 chair	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chair	det
6	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 angry	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 keeps	cc
8	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	conj
9	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keeps	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 knock	mark
11	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trying	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knock	obj
13	over	over	ADP	_	11 knock	compound:prt
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 purpose	case
15	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knock	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			with the chair; angry property	tree rules
2	keep	present					tree rules
3	try	gerund					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	knock over not said to happen	to-infinitive		chair	purpose		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on purpose=Destination

Option 2

It is trying to clean the chair leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 clean	mark
5	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 leg	det
7	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leg	compound
8	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	It						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	clean not said to happen	to-infinitive		the chair leg					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It follows sensors and simple rules, not real understanding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 follows	nsubj
2	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 follows	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rules	cc
5	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rules	amod
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sensors	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 understanding	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 real	advmod
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 understanding	amod
10	understanding	understanding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sensors	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	It	sensors and simple rules and real understanding					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensor=Theme

Option 4

It wants to move the chair out of the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 move	mark
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chair	det
6	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 way	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	move not said to happen	to-infinitive		the chair		the way			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent chair=Theme out way=Trajectory

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