Test 10 · The future: hopes
Grandad expects AI to cure his illness next week. What is honest and kind?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandad, AI · What happens: expect, cure, be · To what, where: AI, illness
This is test 10 of lesson 24 «The future: hopes» 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 expects AI to cure his illness next week.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 expects | nsubj |
| 2 | expects | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | AI | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 expects | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 cure | mark |
| 5 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 expects | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 illness | nmod:poss |
| 7 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cure | obj |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 week | amod |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cure | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 expects | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | present | Grandad | AI | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cure not said to happen | to-infinitive | AI not said here | Grandad's illness | week | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer illness=Source |
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 honest and kind?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 honest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 honest | cop |
| 3 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 kind | cc |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 honest | conj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 honest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | honest property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
AI may help medicine, but it is slow and needs testing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 help | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 help | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 slow | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 slow | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 slow | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 slow | cop |
| 9 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 help | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 needs | cc |
| 11 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 slow | conj |
| 12 | testing | testing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 needs | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | may | AI | medicine | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | is | present | AI | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | need | present | AI not said here | testing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot testing=Theme |
Option 2
Stop taking his medicine and wait
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Stop | xcomp |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 medicine | nmod:poss |
| 4 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 taking | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wait | cc |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stop | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | imperative | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | take | gerund | you not said here | his medicine | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | medicine | his = he | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
Yes, all the cures will arrive next week, so there's no need to worry
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 arrive | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 cures | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cures | det |
| 5 | cures | cure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 arrive | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 arrive | aux |
| 7 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 week | amod |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrive | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 's | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 's | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 's | expl |
| 13 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 arrive | parataxis |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 need | det |
| 15 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 's | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 worry | mark |
| 17 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 need | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | future | all cures | week | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | present | no need | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | worry | to-infinitive | no need not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
No, AI will never help any patient
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 help | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | AI | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 help | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 help | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 help | advmod |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 patient | det |
| 8 | patient | patient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 help | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | future | AI | any patient | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patient=Beneficiary |
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