Test 10 · ★ · Sounding right and being right

Why is it fair to ask a bot "are you a bot?"

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: bot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 fair	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fair	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fair	expl
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bot	parataxis
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ask	mark
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fair	csubj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bot	det
8	bot	bot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 bot	punct
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 bot	cop
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 bot	nsubj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bot	det
13	bot	bot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 bot	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 bot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			fair property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive		a bot		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bot=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	present	you	a bot		tree rules

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

Bots are never allowed to answer that question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bots	bot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 answer	mark
6	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 question	det
8	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answer	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Bots					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	answer speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Bots not said here	that question					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

You have a right to know when you are talking to a machine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 right	det
4	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 know	mark
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 right	acl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 talking	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 talking	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 talking	aux
10	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 know	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 machine	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 machine	det
13	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	You	a right		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient
2	know	to-infinitive	You not said here	a right not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	talk	present · progressive	you		to a machine	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to machine=Co-Agent

Option 3

It is rude and bots will refuse

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	3 rude	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 refuse	cc
5	bots	bot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 refuse	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 refuse	aux
7	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rude	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					rude property	tree rules
2	refuse	future	bots						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Asking makes the bot turn into a real person who can answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bot	det
4	bot	bot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	xcomp
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 person	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 person	amod
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 answer	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 answer	aux
12	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 person	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present		the bot	into a real person	tree rules
3	turn	present	the bot not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	answer speech: assert	can	a real person			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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