Test 11 · ★ · Hallucinations: confident made-up answers
Why might a bot answer a question about your feelings badly?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bot · What happens: answer · To what, where: question
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 5 «Hallucinations: confident made-up answers» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 answer | advmod |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bot | det |
| 4 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | nsubj |
| 5 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 question | det |
| 7 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 feelings | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 answer | obl |
| 11 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 answer | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | might | a bot | a question | about your feelings; badly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |
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 · ✓ the right answer
It only knows what you typed, not your life
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 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 knows | advmod |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 typed | obj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 typed | nsubj |
| 6 | typed | type | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 life | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 life | advmod |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 life | nmod:poss |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | It | your life | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | type | past | you | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
Option 2
It knows too much about you already
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 | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knows | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 much | nmod |
| 7 | already | already | ADV | _ | 2 knows | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | It | much | about you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
It is not allowed to talk about feelings
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 | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 talk | mark |
| 6 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 feelings | case |
| 8 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 talk | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · passive | It | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | talk not said to happen | to-infinitive | about feelings | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about feeling=Topic |
Option 4
It always tells you to cheer up
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 tells | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 tells | advmod |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tells | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 cheer | mark |
| 6 | cheer | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tells | xcomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 cheer | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | It | you | always property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | cheer up not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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