Test 9 · Stories, jokes and riddles with a chatbot

Your little cousin shouts rude words at the speaker for fun. What could you gently say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: little cousin, you · What happens: shout, say · To what, where: rude words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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

Sentence 1: Your little cousin shouts rude words at the speaker for fun.

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	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cousin	amod
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shouts	nsubj
4	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shouts	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 speaker	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 speaker	det
9	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shouts	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 fun	case
11	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 speaker	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shouts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	Your little cousin	rude words				at the speaker for fun	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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: What could you gently say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
4	gently	gently	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	could	you					gently property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

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

Habits stick; talking rudely can spread to how you talk to people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Habits	habit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stick	nsubj
2	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 spread	punct
4	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 spread	csubj
5	rudely	rudely	ADV	_	4 talking	advmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 spread	aux
7	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stick	parataxis
8	to	to	SCONJ	_	11 talk	mark
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 talk	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 talk	nsubj
11	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spread	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 people	case
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stick	present	Habits		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	talk	gerund		rudely property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	spread	can	talking		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	talk	present	you	to people	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to people=Co-Agent

Option 2

It is fine, nothing we do ever becomes a habit

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 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nothing	punct
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 becomes	nsubj
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 nothing	acl:relcl
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 becomes	advmod
9	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 habit	det
11	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				fine property	tree rules
2	do	present	we				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	become	present	nothing	a habit	ever		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The speaker will feel really sad and cry, and then after a while it will break

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 speaker	det
2	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feel	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feel	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cry	cc
8	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 feel	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 break	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 break	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 break	advmod
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 while	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 while	det
14	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 break	obl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 break	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 break	aux
17	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 feel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	feel	future	the speaker		sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	infinitive	the speaker not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	break	future	speaker	then; while		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The speaker will call the police

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 speaker	det
2	speaker	speaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 call	aux
4	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 police	det
6	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 call	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	future	the speaker	the police					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient

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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