Test 4 · ★ · Sounding right and being right

Your friend says, "Why bother being careful, bots don't remember anything anyway." What is the problem with that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, bother, bots, problem · What happens: say, be, not remember · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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: Your friend says, "Why bother being careful, bots don't remember anything anyway."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 careful	punct
6	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 careful	advmod
7	bother	bother	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 careful	nsubj
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 careful	cop
9	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 remember	punct
11	bots	bot	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 remember	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 remember	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 remember	advmod
14	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 careful	conj
15	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 remember	obj
16	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	14 remember	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 careful	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 careful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your friend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	gerund	bother		careful property	tree rules
3	not remember in a quote	present · do-support	bots	anything	anyway property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

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 the problem with that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 problem	det
4	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 problem	nmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the problem with that						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Bots forget, so you can type anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bots	bot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forget	nsubj
2	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 type	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 type	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 type	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 type	aux
7	type	type	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 forget	parataxis
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 type	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	Bots						tree rules
2	type	can	you	anything					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

Option 2

Bots remember everything forever, so you should be scared to type anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bots	bot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remember	nsubj
2	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 remember	obj
4	forever	forever	ADV	_	2 remember	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 scared	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 scared	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 scared	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 scared	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 scared	cop
10	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remember	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 type	mark
12	type	type	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 scared	advcl
13	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 type	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	present	Bots	everything	forever property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
2	is	should	you		scared property	tree rules
3	type	to-infinitive	you not said here	anything		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Some chats are saved by the company, so private things should stay private

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 chats	det
2	chats	chat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saved	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 saved	aux:pass
4	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 company	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 company	det
7	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saved	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stay	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 stay	advmod
10	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 things	amod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stay	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stay	aux
13	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saved	conj
14	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present · passive	the company	some chats					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	stay	should	private things					private property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nobody ever reads chats, so it is fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 reads	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 reads	advmod
3	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	chats	chat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reads	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fine	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 fine	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fine	expl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fine	cop
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reads	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present	Nobody	chats			ever		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Topic
2	is	present	Nobody not said here					fine property	tree rules

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