Test 3 · What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people
In a cartoon, a chatbot rubs its tummy and says it's starving for chips. What does the cartoon get wrong?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chatbot, cartoon · What happens: rub, say, starve, get · To what, where: tummy, cartoon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 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: In a cartoon, a chatbot rubs its tummy and says it's starving for chips.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rubs | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chatbot | det |
| 6 | chatbot | chatbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rubs | nsubj |
| 7 | rubs | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tummy | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rubs | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 says | cc |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 rubs | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 starving | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 starving | aux |
| 14 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 says | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 chips | case |
| 16 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 starving | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rubs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | present | a chatbot | chatbot's tummy | a cartoon | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tummy=Theme in cartoon=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a chatbot not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | starve | present · progressive | chatbot | for chips | tree rules |
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 the cartoon get wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 get | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cartoon | det |
| 4 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 get | xcomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · do-support | the cartoon | wrong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, chatbots eat electricity like chips
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 chatbots | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | chatbots | chatbot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eat | obj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 chips | case |
| 7 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Nothing chatbots | electricity | like chips | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Chatbots only get hungry at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chatbots | chatbot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 get | advmod |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 get | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Chatbots | night | hungry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A chatbot has no body, so it can't be hungry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chatbot | det |
| 2 | chatbot | chatbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 body | det |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hungry | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 hungry | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hungry | nsubj |
| 9 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 hungry | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 hungry | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hungry | cop |
| 12 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 has | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a chatbot | no body | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not is | can | chatbot | hungry property | tree rules |
Option 4
Chatbots prefer sweets to chips, so it would ask for sweets
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chatbots | chatbot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 prefer | nsubj |
| 2 | prefer | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 prefer | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 chips | case |
| 5 | chips | chip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 prefer | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 ask | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | aux |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 prefer | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 sweets | case |
| 12 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ask | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prefer | present | Chatbots | sweets | to chips | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sweet=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | would | it | for sweets | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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