Test 2 · ★ · Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop

What would happen if you asked "tell me about dogs" instead of "list five things a puppy needs"?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, puppy · What happens: happen, ask, tell, need · To what, where: me, five things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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

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 asked	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 asked	nsubj
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 asked	xcomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 dogs	case
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tell	obl
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
13	instead	instead	ADV	_	16 list	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 list	case
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 list	punct
16	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obl
17	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 things	nummod
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 list	nmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 puppy	det
20	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 needs	nsubj
21	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 things	acl:relcl
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 needs	punct
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	past	you				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		me	about dogs; instead list five things	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about dog=Topic
4	need in a quote	present	a puppy	five things not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=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

You would get exactly the same answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 get	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 answer	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 answer	amod
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	You	the same answer				exactly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus

Option 2

The bot would refuse the short one

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 refuse	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 refuse	aux
4	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 refuse	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	would	the bot	the short one					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

You would probably get a vaguer answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 answer	det
6	vaguer	vague	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 answer	amod
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	You	a vaguer answer				probably property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The bot would ask your dog

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 ask	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dog	nmod:poss
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	would	the bot		your dog				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient

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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