Test 2 · ★★★ · Using AI to learn, not to copy
What would happen if Sam had thrown away all his notes and drafts?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sam · What happens: happen, throw away, note · To what, where: Sam
This is test 2 · ★★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 thrown | mark |
| 5 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thrown | aux |
| 7 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happen | advcl |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 thrown | advmod |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 notes | det:predet |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 notes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thrown | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drafts | cc |
| 13 | drafts | draft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 notes | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | throw away a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | Sam | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination note=Theme | ||||
| 3 | note | Sam | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=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.
The options
Option 1
The detector would apologise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 detector | det |
| 2 | detector | detector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 apologise | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 apologise | aux |
| 4 | apologise | apologise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apologise speech: apologize | would | the detector | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It would be harder to show the essay was his
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 harder | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 harder | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 harder | cop |
| 4 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 show | mark |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 harder | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 essay | det |
| 8 | essay | essay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | obj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 his | cop |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 harder | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | It | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | the essay | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent essay=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | his = he | tree rules |
Option 3
The teacher would believe him at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 believe | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 believe | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | would | the teacher | him = he | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
Option 4
Nothing, because notes and drafts never matter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 matter | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 matter | mark |
| 4 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 matter | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 drafts | cc |
| 6 | drafts | draft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 notes | conj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 matter | advmod |
| 8 | matter | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Nothing | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | present | notes and drafts | vn matter-91 «NP V»: 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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