Test 9 · Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up

Which of these makes family rules about AI work best?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: make · To what, where: family rules

This is test 9 of lesson 16 «Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 makes	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 these	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	1 Which	nmod
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rules	compound
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 makes	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 work	case
8	AI	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 work	compound
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rules	nmod
10	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 makes	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		family rules				about AI work	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rule=Product

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

Rules are copied from a film about robots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 copied	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 copied	aux:pass
3	copied	copy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 film	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 film	det
6	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copied	obl
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 robots	case
8	robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 copied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present · passive		Rules		a film		about robots	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme about robot=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Each child makes up their own rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 makes	compound:prt
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 rules	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rules	amod
7	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	present	each child	their own rules					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rule=Pivot
2	rule		their = they						nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Everyone agrees them together and talks again later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 agrees	nsubj
2	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 agrees	obj
4	together	together	ADV	_	2 agrees	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 talks	cc
6	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 agrees	conj
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 talks	advmod
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 talks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	Everyone	them = they				together property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent they=Topic
2	talk	present	Everyone not said here				again	late property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Parents decide in secret and never explain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 decide	nsubj
2	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 secret	case
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 decide	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 explain	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 explain	advmod
7	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 decide	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	Parents			secret			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not explain speech: assert	infinitive	Parents not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «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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