Test 1 · ★ · Sounding right and being right

"it said it so confidently it HAS to be true" Your reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, Your · What happens: say, have, be, reply · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 3 «Sounding right and being right» 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 said	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 HAS	advmod
6	confidently	confidently	ADV	_	8 HAS	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 HAS	nsubj
8	HAS	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	11 true	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 true	cop
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 HAS	xcomp
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 reply	punct
13	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 reply	nmod:poss
14	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 true	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	it	it		tree rules
2	have in a quote	present	it		confidently property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	to-infinitive			true property	tree rules
4	reply		Your			nom reply «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, confident voices are never wrong about anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 wrong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	confident	confident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 voices	amod
4	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wrong	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	cop
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 wrong	advmod
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 anything	case
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 wrong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	confident voices					about anything; wrong property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, bots only ever sound sure when they are right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 sound	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	bots	bot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sound	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 sound	advmod
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 sound	advmod
6	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sound	xcomp
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 right	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 right	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sound	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	infinitive	bots				ever	sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	bots = bot					right property	tree rules

Option 3

No, bots are always wrong when they sound confident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 wrong	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	bots	bot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wrong	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 wrong	advmod
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 sound	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sound	nsubj
9	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	advcl
10	confident	confident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sound	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	bots					always, wrong property	tree rules
2	sound	present	bots = bot					confident property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sounding sure is a hint, not proof; check it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sounding	sound	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hint	csubj
2	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sounding	xcomp
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hint	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hint	det
5	hint	hint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 proof	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 proof	advmod
8	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hint	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 check	punct
10	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 hint	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sound	gerund			sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	be speech: other	present	Sounding	a hint and proof		tree rules
3	check	infinitive		proof		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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