Test 8 · Who you are: being wrong and learning
"who cares about breakfast lessons, teach me real stuff" Fair reply?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: care, teach · To what, where: real stuff, me
This is test 8 of lesson 29 «Who you are: being wrong and learning» 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cares | punct |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 cares | nsubj |
| 3 | cares | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 lessons | case |
| 5 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lessons | compound |
| 6 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cares | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 teach | punct |
| 8 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cares | advcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 teach | obj |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stuff | amod |
| 11 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 teach | obj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 reply | punct |
| 13 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reply | amod |
| 14 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 teach | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 cares | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care in a quote | present | about breakfast lessons | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about lesson=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | teach speech: other in a quote | infinitive | real stuff | me | Fair reply obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient stuff=Topic |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Everyday life is where most language lives, so it is real stuff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 life | amod |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 where | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 where | cop |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 lives | amod |
| 6 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lives | compound |
| 7 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 where | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stuff | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 stuff | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stuff | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 stuff | cop |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stuff | amod |
| 13 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 where | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Everyday life | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | life | real stuff | tree rules |
Option 2
Only big facts are worth learning, breakfast is a waste of the lessons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 facts | advmod |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 facts | amod |
| 3 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 worth | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 worth | cop |
| 5 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | learning | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 worth | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 waste | punct |
| 8 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waste | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 waste | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 waste | det |
| 11 | waste | waste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 learning | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 lessons | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lessons | det |
| 14 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 waste | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | big facts | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | learn | gerund | big facts not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | breakfast | a waste | of the lessons | tree rules |
Option 3
Yes, ordinary days teach nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 ordinary | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 teach | nsubj |
| 5 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 teach | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present | ordinary days | nothing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Breakfast lessons were a mistake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lessons | compound |
| 2 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mistake | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mistake | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mistake | det |
| 5 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Breakfast lessons | a mistake | 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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