Test 3 · Keep yourself private, and voices that lie

"bot said my headache's prob a brain thing, i'm freaking out" Best reply?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bot, i · What happens: say, freak out · To what, where: prob, Best reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 of lesson 12 «Keep yourself private, and voices that lie» 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
2	bot	bot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 headache	nmod:poss
5	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prob	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 headache	case
7	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thing	compound
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 freaking	punct
12	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 freaking	nsubj
13	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 freaking	aux
14	freaking	freak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 said	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 freaking	compound:prt
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 reply	punct
17	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 reply	amod
18	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 freaking	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	bot	my headache's prob					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prob=Topic
2	freak out in a quote	present · progressive	i	Best reply					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

Search for more scary illnesses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Search	search	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 illnesses	case
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 scary	advmod
4	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 illnesses	amod
5	illnesses	illness	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Search	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	imperative	you not said here					for scary illnesses	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for illness=Theme

Option 2

Believe it and go to bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Believe	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 go	cc
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Believe	conj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	imperative	you not said here	it					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	go	infinitive	you not said here			bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Ask the bot for the cure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bot	det
3	bot	bot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 cure	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cure	det
6	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the bot				for the cure	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bot=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bots list scary guesses; tell a grown-up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bots	bot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 list	nsubj
2	list	list	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guesses	amod
4	guesses	guess	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 list	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 list	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 up	det
8	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 up	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 up	punct
10	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	list	present	Bots	scary guesses					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive		a grown up					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient

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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