Exam question 2 · Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot
It is given that a chatbot reports that the word "strawberry" contains two instances of the letter r. Ascertain the correct number of such instances.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chatbot, word, two instances · What happens: give, report, contain, ascertain, instance · To what, where: It, correct number, letter r.
This is exam question 2 of lesson 4 «Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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
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 | 3 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 reports | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chatbot | det |
| 6 | chatbot | chatbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reports | nsubj |
| 7 | reports | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 contains | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 contains | nsubj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 strawberry | punct |
| 12 | strawberry | strawberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 word | appos |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 strawberry | punct |
| 14 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 reports | advcl |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 instances | nummod |
| 16 | instances | instance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Ascertain | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 r. | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 r. | det |
| 19 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 r. | compound |
| 20 | r. | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 instances | nmod |
| 21 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 contains | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 number | det |
| 23 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 number | amod |
| 24 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Ascertain | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 instances | case |
| 26 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 instances | amod |
| 27 | instances | instance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 number | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | It | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | report | present | a chatbot | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | contain | present | the word | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ascertain | infinitive | two instances of the letter r. | the correct number of such instances | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 5 | instance | the letter r. | nom instance «event transitive»: of=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
One
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 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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