Test 10 · ★★★ · Using AI to learn, not to copy
A revision plan sits in Maddie's drawer, never used. What happened to its value?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: revision plan, drawer · What happens: sit, not use, happen, value · To what, where: drawer
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Using AI to learn, not to copy» 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: A revision plan sits in Maddie's drawer, never used.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 plan | det |
| 2 | revision | revision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plan | compound |
| 3 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | nsubj |
| 4 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 drawer | case |
| 6 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 drawer | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Maddie | case |
| 8 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 used | punct |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 used | advmod |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sits | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | a revision plan | Maddie's drawer | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in drawer=Location | ||||
| 2 | not use | participle | a revision plan not said here | vn eat-39.1 «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.
Sentence 2: What happened to its value?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 value | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 value | nmod:poss |
| 5 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | to drawer's value | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | value | drawer | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It still makes her learn by itself, just by being there
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 | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 makes | advmod |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 itself | case |
| 7 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 learn | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 there | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 there | case |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 there | cop |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 makes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | her = she | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | learn | infinitive | her = she not said here | by itself = it | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | there property | tree rules |
Option 2
The bot will do the revising
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bot | det |
| 2 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 revising | det |
| 6 | revising | revising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | the bot | the revising | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revising=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Little; the plan only helps if she follows it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 helps | advmod |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 helps | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 plan | det |
| 4 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 helps | nsubj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 helps | advmod |
| 6 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 follows | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 follows | nsubj |
| 9 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 helps | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 follows | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | the plan | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | follow a condition, not said to happen | present | plan | it | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4
It works better in a drawer
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 works | nsubj |
| 2 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 works | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 drawer | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 drawer | det |
| 6 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 works | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | It | in a drawer; well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in drawer=Theme |
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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