Test 4 · Cars, doctors, scientists and translators
In a cartoon a robot waiter cooks, serves, chats and comforts a crying child. What is closer to real life now?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robot waiter · What happens: cook, comfort, cry, be · To what, where: serves, crying child
This is test 4 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: In a cartoon a robot waiter cooks, serves, chats and comforts a crying child.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cooks | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 waiter | det |
| 5 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waiter | compound |
| 6 | waiter | waiter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cooks | nsubj |
| 7 | cooks | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 serves | punct |
| 9 | serves | serve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cooks | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chats | punct |
| 11 | chats | chat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 serves | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 comforts | cc |
| 13 | comforts | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cooks | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 15 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 child | amod |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 comforts | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cooks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | present | a robot waiter | serves and chats | in a cartoon | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent serve=Patient in cartoon=Instrument | |||
| 2 | comfort | present | a robot waiter not said here | a crying child | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 is closer to real life now?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 closer | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 closer | cop |
| 3 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 life | amod |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 closer | obl |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 closer | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 closer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | now | to real life; close property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Real robot waiters already do all of that in most restaurants today
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 waiters | amod |
| 2 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waiters | compound |
| 3 | waiters | waiter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 all | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 restaurants | case |
| 10 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 restaurants | amod |
| 11 | restaurants | restaurant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obl |
| 12 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Real robot waiters | all | most restaurants | today | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |
Option 2
Real restaurants are run entirely by robots
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 restaurants | amod |
| 2 | restaurants | restaurant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 run | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | aux:pass |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 4 run | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 robots | case |
| 7 | robots | robot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 run | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present · passive | robots | Real restaurants | entirely property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Real restaurant robots mostly carry plates, guided by sensors
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 robots | amod |
| 2 | restaurant | restaurant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 robots | compound |
| 3 | robots | robot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 4 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 5 carry | advmod |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carry | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 guided | punct |
| 8 | guided | guide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 plates | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 sensors | case |
| 10 | sensors | sensor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 guided | obl:agent |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | Real restaurant robots | plates | mostly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme | |||
| 2 | guide | participle | plates not said here | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Real robots cook but never carry plates
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 robots | amod |
| 2 | robots | robot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cook | nsubj |
| 3 | cook | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 carry | cc |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 carry | advmod |
| 6 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cook | conj |
| 7 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carry | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | present | Real robots | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not carry | infinitive | Real robots not said here | plates | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=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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