Test 9 · ★★ · In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety

Why might laws about AI be hard to get right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: laws · What happens: be, get

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 22 «In the news: jobs, art and copying, children's safety» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 hard	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hard	aux
3	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hard	nsubj
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 AI	case
5	AI	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laws	nmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 hard	cop
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hard	csubj
10	right	right	ADV	_	9 get	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	laws about AI					hard property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive						right property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

AI already writes all of its own laws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	AI	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 writes	nsubj
2	already	already	ADV	_	3 writes	advmod
3	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 writes	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 laws	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 laws	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 laws	amod
8	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	present	AI	all					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme

Option 2

Laws never apply to computers or phones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 apply	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 apply	advmod
3	apply	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 computers	case
5	computers	computer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 apply	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 phones	cc
7	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 computers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not apply	present	Laws					to computers or phones	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They can be too slow or too strict

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slow	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 slow	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 slow	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 slow	advmod
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 strict	cc
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 strict	advmod
8	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 slow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	They					slow property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here						tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody is allowed to write laws about AI

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 allowed	aux:pass
3	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 write	mark
5	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 allowed	xcomp
6	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 write	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 AI	case
8	AI	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 write	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		Nobody					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	write not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here	laws				about AI	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent law=Recipient about ai=Topic

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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