Test 5 · What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people
Chloe's teacher holds up a ginger fluffy cushion and the app says "cat". What should the class learn?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, app, class · What happens: hold up, say, learn · To what, where: ginger fluffy cushion, cat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 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: Chloe's teacher holds up a ginger fluffy cushion and the app says "cat".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chloe | Chloe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Chloe | case |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holds | nsubj |
| 4 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 holds | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cushion | det |
| 7 | ginger | ginger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cushion | compound |
| 8 | fluffy | fluffy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cushion | amod |
| 9 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 holds | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 says | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 app | det |
| 12 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cushion | conj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 cat | punct |
| 15 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | obj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 cat | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 holds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold up | present | Chloe's teacher | a ginger fluffy cushion | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cushion=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the app | cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic |
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 should the class learn?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 learn | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 learn | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 class | det |
| 4 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 learn | nsubj |
| 5 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 learn | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | should | the class | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The cushion must contain cat hair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cushion | det |
| 2 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 contain | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 contain | aux |
| 4 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hair | compound |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 contain | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | must | the cushion | cat hair | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hair=Theme |
Option 2
The app is cleverer than the class
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 app | det |
| 2 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cleverer | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cleverer | cop |
| 4 | cleverer | clever | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 class | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 class | det |
| 7 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cleverer | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the app | than the class; clever property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The app learned a look, not what a cat really is
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 app | det |
| 2 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learned | nsubj |
| 3 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 look | det |
| 5 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learned | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 what | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 what | advmod |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 learned | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 what | nsubj |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 what | advmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | the app | a look | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | a cat | tree rules |
Option 4
Cushions and cats are the same to everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 same | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 cats | cc |
| 3 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cushions | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 same | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 same | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 everyone | case |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 same | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Cushions and cats | to everyone; same property | tree rules |
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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