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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".

nmod:possnsubjamodobjpunctccdetnsubjconjpunctobjpunctpunctrootYourPRONschoolNOUNusesVERBBritishADJspellingNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJtheDETbotNOUNwritesVERB"PUNCTcolorNOUN"PUNCT.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YouryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 schoolnmod:poss
2schoolschoolNOUNNumber=Sing3 usesnsubj
3usesuseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4BritishBritishADJDegree=Pos5 spellingamod
5spellingspellingNOUNNumber=Sing3 usesobj
6,,PUNCT_10 writespunct
7butbutCCONJ_10 writescc
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 botdet
9botbotNOUNNumber=Sing10 writesnsubj
10writeswriteVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 usesconj
11""PUNCT_12 colorpunct
12colorcolorNOUNNumber=Sing10 writesobj
13""PUNCT_12 colorpunct
14..PUNCT_3 usespunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1usepresentYour schoolBritish spellingvn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient
2writepresentthe botcolorvn 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?

objauxnsubjpunctrootWhatPRONdoAUXyouPRONwriteVERB?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatPRONPronType=Int4 writeobj
2dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 writeaux
3youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs4 writensubj
4writewriteVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
5??PUNCT_4 writepunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1writepresent · do-supportyouvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

"colour", the spelling your school uses

punctnsubjpunctpunctdetconjnmod:possobjroot"PUNCTcolourNOUN"PUNCT,PUNCTtheDETspellingNOUNyourPRONschoolNOUNusesVERB
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 colourpunct
2colourcolourNOUNNumber=Sing9 usesnsubj
3""PUNCT_2 colourpunct
4,,PUNCT_6 spellingpunct
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 spellingdet
6spellingspellingNOUNNumber=Sing2 colourconj
7youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 schoolnmod:poss
8schoolschoolNOUNNumber=Sing6 spellingobj
9usesuseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1usepresentcolour and the spellingvn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Whatever is shortest

nsubjcoprootWhateverPRONisAUXshortestADJ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhateverwhateverPRONPronType=Rel3 shortestnsubj
2isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 shortestcop
3shortestshortADJDegree=Suprootroot
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentWhatevershort propertytree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

"color", because the bot said so

punctccomppunctpunctmarkdetnsubjadvmodroot"PUNCTcolorNOUN"PUNCT,PUNCTbecauseSCONJtheDETbotNOUNsaidVERBsoADV
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_2 colorpunct
2colorcolorNOUNNumber=Sing8 saidccomp
3""PUNCT_2 colorpunct
4,,PUNCT_8 saidpunct
5becausebecauseSCONJ_8 saidmark
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 botdet
7botbotNOUNNumber=Sing8 saidnsubj
8saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9sosoADV_8 saidadvmod
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastthe botvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Both spellings in the same word

detcasedetamodnmodrootBothDETspellingsNOUNinADPtheDETsameADJwordNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BothbothDETPronType=Tot2 spellingsdet
2spellingsspellingNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
3ininADP_6 wordcase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 worddet
5samesameADJDegree=Pos6 wordamod
6wordwordNOUNNumber=Sing2 spellingsnmod

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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