Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★
Ollie's chat log: after "I'm" came "starving" 5 times, "fine" 3 times, "bored" 2 times. Which word will a simple next-word guesser pick after "I'm"?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: be, starve · To what, where: chat log
This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★» 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: Ollie's chat log: after "I'm" came "starving" 5 times, "fine" 3 times, "bored" 2 times.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 log | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ollie | case |
| 3 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 log | compound |
| 4 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 log | punct |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 9 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | cop |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 log | acl:relcl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 starving | punct |
| 13 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 came | advcl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 starving | punct |
| 15 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 times | nummod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 starving | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fine | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fine | punct |
| 19 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 starving | conj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fine | punct |
| 21 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 times | nummod |
| 22 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fine | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 times | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 bored | punct |
| 25 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 times | amod |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 bored | punct |
| 27 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 times | nummod |
| 28 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 times | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 log | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | Ollie's chat log not said here | come property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | starve in a quote | gerund | I not said here | time | 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.
Sentence 2: Which word will a simple next-word guesser pick after "I'm"?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pick | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 pick | aux |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pick | det |
| 5 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pick | amod |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 word | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 next | punct |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 guesser | compound |
| 9 | guesser | guesser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pick | compound |
| 10 | pick | pick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 'm | mark |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 'm | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 'm | nsubj |
| 14 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pick | acl |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 'm | punct |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 pick | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
bored
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
starving
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve | gerund | tree rules |
Option 3
fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
hungry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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