Test 6 · School rules, honesty and wrong accusations
Connor's brother is 6 and used a bot for reading homework. Why does Connor tell Mum?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, bot, Connor · What happens: be, use, read, tell · To what, where: 6, bot, homework, Mum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 of lesson 11 «School rules, honesty and wrong accusations» 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: Connor's brother is 6 and used a bot for reading homework.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Connor | case |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 6 | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 6 | cop |
| 5 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 used | cc |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 6 | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bot | det |
| 9 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | obj |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 reading | mark |
| 11 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 bot | acl |
| 12 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reading | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 6 | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Connor's brother | 6 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | past | Connor's brother not said here | a bot | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bot=Patient | ||||
| 3 | read | gerund | a bot not said here | homework | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=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: Why does Connor tell Mum?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 tell | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · do-support | Connor | Mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
To get his little brother punished by Mum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 get | mark |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brother | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obj |
| 6 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 get | xcomp |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Mum | case |
| 8 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 punished | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | to-infinitive | his little brother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | punish | participle | his little brother not said here | by Mum | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Because he wants the bot himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 3 wants | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bot | det |
| 5 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | obj |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 wants | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | he | the bot | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent bot=Theme himself=Attribute |
Option 3
Because Mum asked him to spy on his brother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 3 asked | mark |
| 2 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 spy | mark |
| 6 | spy | spy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Mum | him = he | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | spy not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mum not said here | on his brother | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
So his brother actually learns to read well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 learns | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 learns | nsubj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 learns | advmod |
| 5 | learns | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 read | mark |
| 7 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 learns | xcomp |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 read | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present | his brother | actually property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | read | to-infinitive | his brother not said here | well property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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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