Test 10 · ★ · Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop
Your school uses British spelling, but the bot writes "color". What do you write?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: school, bot, you · What happens: use, write · To what, where: British spelling, color
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 8 «Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop» 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: Your school uses British spelling, but the bot writes "color".
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 school | nmod:poss |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uses | nsubj |
| 3 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spelling | amod |
| 5 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uses | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 writes | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 writes | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bot | det |
| 9 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 writes | nsubj |
| 10 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 uses | conj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 color | punct |
| 12 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 writes | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 color | punct |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uses | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Your school | British spelling | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient | ||||
| 2 | write | present | the bot | color | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent color=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: What do you write?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 write | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 write | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 write | nsubj |
| 4 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 write | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present · do-support | you | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
"colour", the spelling your school uses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 colour | punct |
| 2 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 uses | nsubj |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 colour | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spelling | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spelling | det |
| 6 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 colour | conj |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 school | nmod:poss |
| 8 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spelling | obj |
| 9 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | colour and the spelling | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Whatever is shortest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 shortest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shortest | cop |
| 3 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Whatever | short property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
"color", because the bot said so
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 color | punct |
| 2 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 color | punct |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 said | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bot | det |
| 7 | bot | bot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the bot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Both spellings in the same word
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 spellings | det |
| 2 | spellings | spelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 word | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 word | amod |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spellings | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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