Test 7 · ★ · Sounding right and being right
A bot gives a brilliant answer about the sky, then a muddled one about your village. Why the difference?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bot · What happens: give, muddle · To what, where: brilliant answer
This is test 7 · ★ 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 bot gives a brilliant answer about the sky, then a muddled one about your village.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bot | det |
| 2 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 answer | det |
| 5 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 answer | amod |
| 6 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 sky | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sky | det |
| 9 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answer | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 one | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | muddled | muddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | parataxis |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 village | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 village | nmod:poss |
| 17 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | a bot | a brilliant answer | about the sky | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | |||
| 2 | muddle | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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: Why the difference?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 difference | det |
| 3 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The bot was tired after the sky answer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bot | det |
| 2 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tired | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tired | cop |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 answer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 answer | det |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answer | compound |
| 8 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tired | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the bot | after the sky answer | tired property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Lots of good text about the sky, little about your village
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 text | case |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 text | amod |
| 4 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lots | nmod |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 sky | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 text | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 little | punct |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Lots | amod |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 village | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 village | nmod:poss |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 little | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Your village is a secret
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 village | nmod:poss |
| 2 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 secret | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 secret | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 secret | det |
| 5 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Your village | a secret | tree rules |
Option 4
Bots dislike small villages and answer them badly on purpose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bots | bot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dislike | nsubj |
| 2 | dislike | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 villages | amod |
| 4 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dislike | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 answer | cc |
| 6 | answer | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dislike | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answer | obj |
| 8 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 answer | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 purpose | case |
| 10 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answer | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dislike | present | Bots | small villages | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer village=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | present | Bots not said here | villages = village | purpose | badly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
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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