Test 9 · ★★ · In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words
A book with a famous author's name looks odd and full of mistakes. What might be going on?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: book, famous author · What happens: look, name, go on
This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 23 «In the news: tricked bots, real discoveries, careful words» 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: A book with a famous author's name looks odd and full of mistakes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 book | det |
| 2 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looks | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 name | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 author | det |
| 5 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 author | amod |
| 6 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 author | case |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 book | nmod |
| 9 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looks | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 full | cc |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 odd | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mistakes | case |
| 14 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 full | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 looks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | a book with a famous author's name | odd property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | name | a famous author | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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 might be going on?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 going | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 going | compound:prt |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | might · progressive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
It must be her first ever book
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 | 7 book | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 book | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 book | cop |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 book | nmod:poss |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 book | amod |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 book | advmod |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | It | her first book | ever | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It could be a fake made under her name
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 fake | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fake | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fake | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fake | det |
| 5 | fake | fake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fake | acl |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 name | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 name | nmod:poss |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | could | It | a fake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | a fake not said here | her name | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | name | her = she | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
Famous authors always make mistakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 authors | amod |
| 2 | authors | author | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Famous authors | mistakes | always property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mistake=Product |
Option 4
The printer changed her words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 printer | det |
| 2 | printer | printer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 changed | obj |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 changed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | the printer | her = she | tree rules |
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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