Test 7 · ★ · Hallucinations: confident made-up answers
Connor's mum finds him awake at midnight after a bot story. What's the best next step?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, best next step · What happens: find, be · To what, where: Connor
This is test 7 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Connor's mum finds him awake at midnight after a bot story.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Connor | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | nsubj |
| 4 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finds | obj |
| 6 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 finds | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 midnight | case |
| 8 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | obl |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 story | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 story | det |
| 11 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 story | compound |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Connor's mum | Connor | after a bot story; midnight | awake property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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's the best next step?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 step | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 step | amod |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 step | amod |
| 6 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best next step | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Read three more scary stories to get used to it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 stories | nummod |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 scary | advmod |
| 4 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stories | amod |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Read | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 used | mark |
| 7 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 used | aux:pass |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Read | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 used | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | imperative | you not said here | three scary stories | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic | ||||
| 2 | use | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | it | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
Option 2
Ask the bot if he is scared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bot | det |
| 3 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 scared | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 scared | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 scared | cop |
| 7 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Ask | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the bot | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bot=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | he | scared property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Tell a grown-up and ask for gentler stories
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 grown | det |
| 3 | grown | grown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tell | obj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 up | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grown | compound |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ask | cc |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 stories | case |
| 9 | gentler | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 stories | amod |
| 10 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ask | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a grown | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | for gentler stories | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Hide it from his mum next time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Hide | obj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 mum | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mum | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hide | obl |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hide | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | imperative | you not said here | it | time | from his mum | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Patient from mum=Beneficiary |
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