Test 3 · ★ · Sounding right and being right
A cartoon shows one giant robot on a mountain answering every person on Earth in turn. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, one giant robot · What happens: show, answer, be · To what, where: one giant robot, mountain, person, Earth
This is test 3 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A cartoon shows one giant robot on a mountain answering every person on Earth in turn.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 robot | nummod |
| 5 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 robot | amod |
| 6 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 mountain | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mountain | det |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 robot | nmod |
| 10 | answering | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 robot | acl |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 person | det |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answering | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 Earth | case |
| 14 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answering | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 turn | case |
| 16 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answering | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | one giant robot | a mountain | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent robot=Recipient | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | gerund | one giant robot not said here | every person | Earth | in turn | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent person=Eventuality |
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 wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The robot should answer in alphabetical order
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 robot | det |
| 2 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answer | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 answer | aux |
| 4 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 order | case |
| 6 | alphabetical | alphabetical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 order | amod |
| 7 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answer | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | should | the robot | alphabetical order | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Nothing, that is exactly how it works, one robot for the whole world
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 works | cop |
| 5 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 8 works | advmod |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 works | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 works | nsubj |
| 8 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Nothing | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 robot | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 robot | nummod |
| 11 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 world | amod |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 robot | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | exactly, work property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Many copies of the program run at once on many computers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 copies | amod |
| 2 | copies | copy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 run | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 program | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 program | det |
| 5 | program | program | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 copies | nmod |
| 6 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 run | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 computers | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 computers | amod |
| 11 | computers | computer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 run | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | Many copies of the program | many computers | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | copy | the program | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
It should be under the sea, not on a mountain
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 | 6 sea | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sea | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sea | cop |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mountain | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 mountain | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 mountain | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mountain | det |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sea | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | It | the sea and a mountain | 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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