Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★
The airline bot "got it a tiny bit wrong" about refunds, a mate says. How big was the trouble really?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: airline bot, mate · What happens: get, say, be · To what, where: it, big trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★» 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: The airline bot "got it a tiny bit wrong" about refunds, a mate says.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bot | det |
| 2 | airline | airline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bot | compound |
| 3 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 says | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bit | det |
| 8 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bit | amod |
| 9 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wrong | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | conj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 wrong | punct |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 refunds | case |
| 13 | refunds | refund | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 says | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mate | det |
| 16 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 says | nsubj |
| 17 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | the airline bot | it | about refunds | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: How big was the trouble really?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 big | advmod |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 trouble | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 trouble | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trouble | det |
| 5 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 trouble | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 trouble | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the big trouble | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
So tiny that nobody noticed it at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 tiny | advmod |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 noticed | mark |
| 4 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 noticed | nsubj |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tiny | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 noticed | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 noticed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | nobody | it | all | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 2
So big that every airline had to stop flying
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 big | advmod |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 had | mark |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 airline | det |
| 5 | airline | airline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 big | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 stop | mark |
| 8 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 had | xcomp |
| 9 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 stop | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | every airline | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stop | to-infinitive | every airline not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | every airline not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Tiny, since bots can never be blamed for anything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bots | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bots | punct |
| 3 | since | since | ADP | _ | 4 bots | case |
| 4 | bots | bot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 blamed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 blamed | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 blamed | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 blamed | aux:pass |
| 8 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 anything | case |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 blamed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not blame | can · passive | Tiny bots | for anything | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for anything=Attribute |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Big enough that a tribunal made the airline pay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 1 Big | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 made | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tribunal | det |
| 5 | tribunal | tribunal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Big | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pay | det |
| 8 | airline | airline | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pay | amod |
| 9 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | a tribunal | the airline pay | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pay=Product |
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