Test 6 · Pretend games, quotes and two bots that disagree
Maddie's made-up language falls apart after an hour of chat. Why?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: make up
This is test 6 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
Sentence 1: Maddie's made-up language falls apart after an hour of chat.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 falls | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Maddie | case |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 falls | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 up | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 made | compound:prt |
| 6 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 falls | compound |
| 7 | falls | fall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hour | nsubj |
| 8 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 11 hour | advmod |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 hour | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hour | det |
| 11 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 chat | case |
| 13 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hour | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hour | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The bot doesn't like made-up languages and gives up
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 | 5 like | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 like | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 languages | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 up | punct |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 made | compound:prt |
| 9 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 like | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gives | cc |
| 11 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 gives | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | present · do-support | the bot | made languages | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot language=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | give up | present | the bot not said here | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Long chats go past what the bot can keep in mind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 chats | amod |
| 2 | chats | chat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | past | past | ADP | _ | 5 what | case |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 go | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bot | det |
| 7 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 keep | aux |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 mind | case |
| 11 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Long chats | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past what=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | keep | can | the bot | mind | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in mind=Location |
Option 3
Made-up languages always fall apart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 languages | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 up | punct |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Made | compound:prt |
| 4 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fall | nsubj |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 fall | advmod |
| 6 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 6 fall | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | fall apart | present | Made languages | always, apart property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Someone changed her words in secret
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 changed | obj |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 changed | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 secret | case |
| 6 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 changed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Someone | her = she | secret | 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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