Test 6 · Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot

"stop saying please to it, it's a machine, you muppet" What is the best reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, it, muppet · What happens: stop, say, be, muppet · To what, where: it, machine, best reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 4 «Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 stop	punct
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
4	please	please	INTJ	_	3 saying	discourse
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saying	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 machine	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 machine	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 machine	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 machine	det
11	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 muppet	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 muppet	nsubj
14	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	parataxis
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 reply	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 reply	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 reply	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 reply	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 reply	amod
20	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 muppet	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	stop in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	you not said here		it	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	present	it	a machine		tree rules
4	muppet in a quote		you			tree rules
5	be speech: assert	present	muppet and the best reply	the best reply		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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It's not for the machine, it keeps my manners in practice

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	6 machine	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 machine	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 machine	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 machine	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 machine	det
6	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 keeps	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 keeps	nsubj
9	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 machine	acl:relcl
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 manners	nmod:poss
11	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 keeps	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 practice	case
13	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It					for the machine	tree rules
2	keep	present	machine	my manners		practice			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent manners=Theme in practice=Location

Option 2

Saying please makes the answers longer and much better too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 makes	csubj
2	please	please	INTJ	_	1 Saying	discourse
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answers	det
5	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 better	cc
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 better	advmod
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 longer	conj
10	too	too	ADV	_	3 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	Saying	the answers					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product

Option 3

Machines cry when you are rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cry	nsubj
2	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 rude	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 rude	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rude	cop
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cry	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present	Machines						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you					rude property	tree rules

Option 4

It will stop working properly if I'm rude to it even once

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 stop	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	4 working	advmod
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 rude	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 rude	nsubj
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rude	cop
9	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stop	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rude	obl
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 once	advmod
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 stop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	stop	future	It		once property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund			properly property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	I	it	rude property	tree rules

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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