Test 6 · What is AI? Pattern-guessers, not people
Gran thinks AI is "a little man in the phone". What is the truth?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gran, AI, truth · What happens: think, be · To what, where: little man, phone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 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: Gran thinks AI is "a little man in the phone".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thinks | nsubj |
| 2 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | AI | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | cop |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thinks | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 phone | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 phone | det |
| 11 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | nmod |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Gran | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | AI | a little man | the phone | 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 is the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
A small robot lives inside every phone and talks back to whoever asks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 robot | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 robot | amod |
| 3 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 7 phone | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 phone | det |
| 7 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 talks | cc |
| 9 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lives | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 talks | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 whoever | case |
| 12 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 talks | obl |
| 13 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 whoever | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a small robot | every phone | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside phone=Location | ||||
| 2 | talk back | present | a small robot not said here | to whoever | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to whoever=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It is a program finding patterns, with no little man
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 program | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 program | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 program | det |
| 4 | program | program | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 program | acl |
| 6 | patterns | pattern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 finding | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 man | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finding | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a program | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | gerund | a program not said here | patterns | with no little man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Topic |
Option 3
It is a recording of one clever person's voice
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 recording | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 recording | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 recording | det |
| 4 | recording | recording | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 voice | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 person | nummod |
| 7 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 person | amod |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 voice | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 person | case |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recording | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a recording | of one clever person's voice | tree rules |
Option 4
A worker listens and answers from far away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 worker | det |
| 2 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listens | nsubj |
| 3 | listens | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 answers | cc |
| 5 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 listens | conj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 far | case |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 away | advmod |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 answers | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | present | a worker | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | present | a worker not said here | away property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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