Test 4 · What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people
"if nobody typed the answer how come it's right most of the time??" Best reply?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nobody, you, answer · What happens: type, come, be · To what, where: answer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 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: "if nobody typed the answer how come it's right most of the time??"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 typed | mark |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 typed | nsubj |
| 4 | typed | type | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 answer | det |
| 6 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 typed | obj |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 come | advmod |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 right | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 right | cop |
| 11 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 come | ccomp |
| 12 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 right | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 most | nmod |
| 16 | ?? | ?? | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | type a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | nobody | the answer | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | answer | most of the time obl; right property | 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: Best reply?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 reply | amod |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 reply | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It learned from huge amounts of text how answers usually go
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 learned | nsubj |
| 2 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 amounts | case |
| 4 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 amounts | amod |
| 5 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 learned | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 text | case |
| 7 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 amounts | nmod |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 go | advmod |
| 9 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 learned | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | It | huge amounts of text | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source how S»: agent=Agent from amount=Source clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | present | answers | usually property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | amount | text | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2
It copies each answer from one website
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 copies | nsubj |
| 2 | copies | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 answer | det |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 copies | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 website | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 website | nummod |
| 7 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 copies | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | present | It | each answer | one website | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
Option 3
Somebody secretly checks every answer first before you see it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 checks | nsubj |
| 2 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 3 checks | advmod |
| 3 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 answer | det |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 checks | obj |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 checks | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 checks | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | present | Somebody | every answer | first, secretly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | present | you | answer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 4
It is never right, it only looks right
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 | 4 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 right | advmod |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looks | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looks | nsubj |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 looks | advmod |
| 8 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | conj |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looks | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | It | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | present | it | right property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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