Test 2 · What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people

What would happen if Jake typed "Once upon a banana"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jake · What happens: happen, type

This is test 2 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 typed	mark
5	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 typed	nsubj
6	typed	type	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Once	punct
8	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 typed	advmod
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 banana	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 banana	det
11	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Once	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Once	punct
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	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	type a condition, not said to happen	past	Jake					once property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The phone would know exactly what comes next, because it knows every story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 phone	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 what	advmod
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 comes	nsubj
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
8	next	next	ADV	_	7 comes	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 knows	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 knows	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 knows	nsubj
12	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	conj
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 story	det
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	would	the phone			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	present			next property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	present	phone	every story		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

Option 2

The phone would fix it to "Once upon a time" forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 phone	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fix	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fix	aux
4	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fix	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 Once	mark
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Once	punct
8	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 fix	advmod
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 time	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Once	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 fix	punct
13	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 fix	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	would	the phone	it				forever, once property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

The phone would refuse to work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 phone	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 refuse	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 refuse	aux
4	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 work	mark
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 refuse	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	would	the phone						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not work	to-infinitive	the phone not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The phone would probably guess badly, because that is unusual

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 phone	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guess	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 guess	aux
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 guess	advmod
5	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 guess	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 unusual	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 unusual	mark
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 unusual	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 unusual	cop
11	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 guess	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	would	the phone					badly, probably property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	that					unusual property	tree rules

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