Exam question 4 · Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop

Ascertain the party upon whom the duty of terminating a conversation with a chatbot principally falls.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, duty · What happens: ascertain, terminate, fall · To what, where: party, conversation

This is exam question 4 of lesson 8 «Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop» of the AI course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 party	det
3	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Ascertain	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 duty	det
7	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 falls	nsubj
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 terminating	mark
9	terminating	terminate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 duty	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 conversation	det
11	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 terminating	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 chatbot	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chatbot	det
14	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 terminating	obl
15	principally	principally	ADV	_	16 falls	advmod
16	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 whom	acl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the party		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Topic
2	terminate	gerund	the duty not said here	a conversation	with a chatbot	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=Theme
3	fall	present	the duty		principally property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The company, at the close of each business day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 company	det
2	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 close	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 close	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 close	det
6	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 company	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 day	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
9	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	compound
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 close	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The chatbot, upon the exhaustion of its energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chatbot	det
2	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 exhaustion	punct
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 exhaustion	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 exhaustion	det
6	exhaustion	exhaustion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chatbot	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 energy	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 energy	nmod:poss
9	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exhaustion	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exhaust			exhaustion's energy					nom exhaustion «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

No party, conversations ending of their own accord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 party	det
2	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ending	punct
4	conversations	conversation	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ending	compound
5	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 party	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 accord	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 accord	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 accord	amod
9	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ending	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end			their own accord					nom ending «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The user, the chatbot never becoming fatigued

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 user	det
2	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chatbot	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chatbot	det
5	chatbot	chatbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 user	conj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 becoming	advmod
7	becoming	become	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 chatbot	acl
8	fatigued	fatigue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 user	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not become	gerund	the chatbot not said here						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	fatigue	participle		the user and the chatbot not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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