Test 10 · Cars, doctors, scientists and translators

Grandad finds the photo app has put his photos in a "Grandad" album without asking him. What is sensible?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad · What happens: find, put, ask, be · To what, where: photo app, Grandad album, Grandad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 18 «Cars, doctors, scientists and translators» 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: Grandad finds the photo app has put his photos in a "Grandad" album without asking him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 finds	nsubj
2	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 app	det
4	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 app	compound
5	app	app	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	nsubj:pass
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 put	aux
7	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 finds	ccomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 photos	nmod:poss
9	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 put	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	15 album	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 album	det
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Grandad	punct
13	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 album	compound
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Grandad	punct
15	album	album	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
16	without	without	SCONJ	_	17 asking	mark
17	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 put	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asking	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	find	present	Grandad				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	put	present · perfect · passive		the photo app		a Grandad album	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset photo=Goal
3	ask speech: ask	gerund			Grandad		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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 sensible?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 sensible	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sensible	cop
3	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sensible	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						sensible property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Take no photos of Grandad ever again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 photos	det
3	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Take	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Grandad	case
5	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 photos	nmod
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 Take	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	no photos of Grandad			ever; again		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ask a grown-up to look at the app's settings together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 up	det
3	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 up	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	12 settings	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 app	det
10	app	app	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 settings	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 app	case
12	settings	setting	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 look	obl
13	together	together	ADV	_	7 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	a grown up					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient
2	look	to-infinitive	you not said here					at the app's settings; together property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at setting=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, apps never store faces anywhere, so there is nothing to look at

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 apps	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	apps	app	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 store	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 store	advmod
5	store	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 store	obj
7	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 store	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 is	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 is	advmod
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 is	expl
11	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 store	conj
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 is	nsubj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 look	mark
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 nothing	acl
15	at	at	ADP	_	14 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not store	present	Nothing apps	faces		anywhere property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme
2	be	present	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	to-infinitive	nothing not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Throw the phone away at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 phone	det
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 Throw	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	imperative	you not said here	the phone				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent phone=Theme at once=Destination

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