Test 2 · Cars, doctors, scientists and translators

Your friend laughs at funny captions: "who cares, it's just a joke". What is a fair answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend · What happens: laugh, care, be · To what, where: funny captions, joke, fair answer

This is test 2 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: Your friend laughs at funny captions: "who cares, it's just a joke".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laughs	nsubj
3	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 captions	case
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 captions	amod
6	captions	caption	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laughs	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 cares	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cares	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 cares	nsubj
10	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laughs	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 joke	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 joke	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 joke	cop
14	just	just	ADV	_	16 joke	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 joke	det
16	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cares	obj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 joke	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laughs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	laugh	present	Your friend		funny captions	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	care in a quote	present				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a in a quote	present	friend	a joke		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 a fair answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 answer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a fair answer					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Captions are always right, so it can't happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Captions	caption	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 right	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 right	advmod
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 happen	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 happen	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 happen	nsubj
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 happen	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 happen	advmod
10	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Captions					always, right property	tree rules
2	not happen	can	it						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It's funny, but deaf viewers rely on captions to understand

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	3 funny	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 funny	cop
3	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rely	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 rely	cc
6	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 viewers	amod
7	viewers	viewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rely	nsubj
8	rely	rely	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 funny	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 captions	case
10	captions	caption	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rely	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 understand	mark
12	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 rely	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	funny property	tree rules
2	rely	present	deaf viewers	on captions	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on caption=Theme
3	understand	to-infinitive	deaf viewers not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Captions are only there to make people laugh, so mistakes make them better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Captions	caption	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 there	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 there	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 there	advcl
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obj
8	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 make	advmod
11	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 make	nsubj
12	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 make	obj
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Captions		there property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	Captions not said here	people		tree rules
3	laugh	infinitive	people not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	present	mistakes	people	good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

Option 4

Nobody reads captions, so it never matters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 reads	nsubj
2	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	captions	caption	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reads	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 matters	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 matters	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 matters	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 matters	advmod
8	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reads	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Nobody	captions					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caption=Topic
2	not matter	present	it						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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