Test 9 · Voice assistants and recommendations

Which sentence about the protein discovery is careful and true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sentence · What happens: be

This is test 9 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 sentence	det
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 careful	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 discovery	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 discovery	det
5	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 discovery	compound
6	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sentence	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 careful	cop
8	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 true	cc
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 careful	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 careful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which sentence about the protein discovery					careful property	tree rules
2	be		which sentence about the protein discovery not said here						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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It means AI has now cured every illness

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	AI	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cured	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cured	aux
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 cured	advmod
6	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	ccomp
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 illness	det
8	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cured	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cure	present · perfect · passive		AI			now		tree rules

Option 2

It was only a rumour on the internet and never happened at all

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 rumour	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rumour	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 rumour	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rumour	det
5	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 internet	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 internet	det
8	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rumour	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 happened	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 happened	advmod
11	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rumour	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a rumour		the internet			tree rules
2	not happen	past				all			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was widely reported as a big breakthrough for medicine research

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	4 reported	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reported	aux:pass
3	widely	widely	ADV	_	4 reported	advmod
4	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 breakthrough	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 breakthrough	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 breakthrough	amod
8	breakthrough	breakthrough	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reported	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 research	case
10	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 research	compound
11	research	research	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breakthrough	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	report	past · passive		It				as a big breakthrough for medicine research; widely property	vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as breakthrough=Attribute

Option 4

It means scientists are no longer needed

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 needed	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 needed	aux:pass
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 longer	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 needed	advmod
7	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	need	present · passive		scientists				long property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

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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