Test 6 · ★ · Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages
Jake's bot said something horrible and he feels it's his fault. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bot, it · What happens: say, feel, be · To what, where: something, fault · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 13 «Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages» 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: Jake's bot said something horrible and he feels it's his fault.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bot | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Jake | case |
| 3 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 something | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 feels | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 feels | nsubj |
| 9 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fault | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fault | cop |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fault | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feels | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jake's bot | something | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | bot | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | it | bot's fault | tree rules |
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 is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It's not his fault; close it and tell a grown-up
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 | 5 fault | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fault | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fault | advmod |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fault | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 close | punct |
| 7 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 fault | parataxis |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 close | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tell | cc |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 close | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 up | det |
| 12 | grown | grown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 up | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 up | punct |
| 14 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | It | his fault | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | close | infinitive | fault | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a grown up | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient |
Option 2
He should apologise to the bot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 apologise | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 apologise | aux |
| 3 | apologise | apologise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bot | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bot | det |
| 6 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 apologise | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apologise speech: apologize | should | He | to the bot | tree rules |
Option 3
He should never tell anyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 tell | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | should | He | anyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |
Option 4
He must have typed something bad to make it say that
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 typed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 typed | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 typed | aux |
| 4 | typed | type | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 typed | obj |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 something | amod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 typed | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 make | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 say | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | type | must · perfect · passive | He | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | it | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
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