Test 8 · Keep yourself private, and voices that lie
A video of a cat playing piano perfectly, just for fun. Does it matter much if it's AI?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: video · What happens: play, matter, be · To what, where: piano, video, AI
This is test 8 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
Sentence 1: A video of a cat playing piano perfectly, just for fun.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 video | det |
| 2 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 playing | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cat | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 video | nmod |
| 6 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | piano | piano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 playing | obj |
| 8 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 6 playing | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fun | punct |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 fun | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 fun | case |
| 12 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 playing | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 playing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | gerund | a video of a cat | piano | perfectly property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piano=Theme |
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: Does it matter much if it's AI?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 matter | aux |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 matter | expl |
| 3 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 matter | advmod |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 AI | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 AI | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 AI | cop |
| 8 | AI | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 matter | advcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 matter | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present · do-support | video | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | video | AI | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It matters more than any news story
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 matters | nsubj |
| 2 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 matters | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 story | det |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 story | compound |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 matters | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present | It | than any news story | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
No, nothing online ever matters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 nothing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 matters | nsubj |
| 4 | online | online | ADV | _ | 3 nothing | advmod |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 matters | advmod |
| 6 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present | nothing | ever | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
Yes, sharing fun AI videos is a crime
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 crime | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | sharing | share | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 crime | csubj |
| 4 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 videos | amod |
| 5 | AI | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 videos | compound |
| 6 | videos | video | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sharing | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 crime | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 crime | det |
| 9 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | gerund | fun AI videos | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | sharing | a crime | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Less for fun videos; it matters a lot for news
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 matters | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 videos | case |
| 3 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 videos | compound |
| 4 | videos | video | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Less | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 matters | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 matters | nsubj |
| 7 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lot | det |
| 9 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 matters | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 news | case |
| 11 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 matters | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present | it | a lot | for news; less property | 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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