Test 4 · Voice assistants and recommendations

In a film, a car with a lane-beep system drives the family home while Dad sleeps. What does the film get wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: car, Dad, film · What happens: drive, sleep, get · To what, where: family, film

This is test 4 of lesson 17 «Voice assistants and recommendations» 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: In a film, a car with a lane-beep system drives the family home while Dad sleeps.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 film	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 film	det
3	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drives	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 film	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 car	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drives	nsubj
7	with	with	ADP	_	12 system	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 system	det
9	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beep	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 lane	punct
11	beep	beep	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 system	compound
12	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 car	nmod
13	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 family	det
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drives	obj
16	home	home	ADV	_	13 drives	advmod
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 sleeps	mark
18	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sleeps	nsubj
19	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 drives	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 drives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	present	a car with a beep system	the family		a film		home property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent family=Theme in film=Destination
2	sleep	present	Dad						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 does the film get wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 get	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 film	det
4	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · do-support	the film					wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, a lane-beep system can drive a car home all on its own

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 drive	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 system	det
4	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beep	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 lane	punct
6	beep	beep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 system	compound
7	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drive	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 drive	aux
9	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 car	det
11	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drive	obj
12	home	home	ADV	_	9 drive	advmod
13	all	all	ADV	_	16 own	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 own	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 own	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 drive	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	can	a beep system	a car				home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme car=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Helper systems only help; the driver must stay alert and in charge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 systems	compound
2	systems	system	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 help	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 help	advmod
4	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 stay	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 driver	det
7	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stay	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stay	aux
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	conj
10	alert	alert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stay	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 charge	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 charge	case
13	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 help	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Helper systems						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	stay	must	the driver					alert property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The beep should be louder to wake Dad up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beep	det
2	beep	beep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 louder	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 louder	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 louder	cop
5	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 wake	mark
7	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 louder	xcomp
8	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wake	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 wake	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	the beep					loud property	tree rules
2	wake up	to-infinitive	the beep not said here	Dad					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dad=Patient

Option 4

Cars with helpers must be driven by children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 driven	nsubj:pass
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 helpers	case
3	helpers	helper	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cars	nmod
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 driven	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 driven	aux:pass
6	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 children	case
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 driven	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	must · passive	children	Cars with helpers					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Location

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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