Test 2 · Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree
What would happen if you kept the bot's boring comic ending as a "version to beat"?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bot · What happens: happen, keep, beat, end · To what, where: boring comic ending
This is test 2 of lesson 7 «Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 kept | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 kept | nsubj |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bot | det |
| 8 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ending | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 bot | case |
| 10 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ending | amod |
| 11 | comic | comic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ending | amod |
| 12 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 version | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 version | det |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 version | punct |
| 16 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 beat | mark |
| 18 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 kept | advcl |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 beat | punct |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | keep a condition, not said to happen | past | you | the bot's boring comic ending | as a version | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ending=Theme | |||
| 3 | beat in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | end | the bot | nom ending «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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
Your comic would be worse
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 | 2 comic | nmod:poss |
| 2 | comic | comic | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 worse | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 worse | cop |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 comic | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | Your comic not said here | bad property | tree rules |
Option 2
The bot would delete your comic
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bot | det |
| 2 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delete | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 delete | aux |
| 4 | delete | delete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 comic | nmod:poss |
| 6 | comic | comic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delete | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delete | would | the bot | your comic | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comic=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The bot would get angry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bot | det |
| 2 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | would | the bot | angry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
You could make your own more surprising one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 own | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 surprising | advmod |
| 7 | surprising | surprising | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | could | You | your own | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Product |
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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