Test 5 · ★ · Sounding right and being right
"who even made this thing, aliens?" Best answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: make · To what, where: thing
This is test 5 · ★ 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: "who even made this thing, aliens?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 thing | det |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 aliens | punct |
| 8 | aliens | alien | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thing | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | past | this thing and aliens | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Product |
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: Best answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 answer | amod |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 answer | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Aliens left it on Earth long, long ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aliens | alien | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 Earth | case |
| 5 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obl |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 left | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ago | punct |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 ago | advmod |
| 9 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 left | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Aliens | it | Earth | ago, long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on earth=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Teams of people designed, built and trained it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 people | case |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Teams | nmod |
| 4 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 built | punct |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 designed | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 trained | cc |
| 8 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 designed | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 trained | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | design | participle · passive | Teams of people | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | build | participle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | train | participle | it | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
It appeared on the internet by itself
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 | 2 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 internet | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 internet | det |
| 5 | internet | internet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appeared | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 itself | case |
| 7 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 appeared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | It | the internet | by internet | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on internet=Location |
Option 4
One child made it for a school project
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 child | nummod |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | 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 made | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 project | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 project | det |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 project | compound |
| 8 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | One child | it | for a school project | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for project=Beneficiary |
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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